Example sentences of "century it [be] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century it was accepted that certain parts of the brain were specialized for either sensation or movement but , as Brodmann ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) demonstrated , there are large areas of the human cerebral cortex that are neither obviously motor nor sensory . |
| 2 | At the beginning of this century it was believed that one could find a basic element of learning that was common to all these activities ; and that once this was established it would be possible to construct a single theory that would explain all learning and would provide a once-and-for-all guide to teaching . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the century it was believed that everything could be understood in terms of continuum mechanics . |
| 4 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 5 | Even so early as the late ninth century it was recognized that in practice a man might be a vassal of more than one lord , and thus the second of our presumptions was breached . |
| 6 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 7 | For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates . |
| 8 | As early as the mid-19th century it was recognised that the common practice of boiling greens with bicarbonate of soda was wrong : ‘ Never , under any circumstances , unless you wish entirely to destroy all flavour and reduce your peas to pulp , boil them with soda . |
| 9 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 11 | At the beginning of this century it was thought that atoms were rather like the planets orbiting the sun , with electrons ( particles of negative electricity ) orbiting around a central nucleus , which carried positive electricity . |