Example sentences of "write [prep] the early [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordeals had taken place in or close to churches — the chronicler , Eadmer , writes in the early twelfth century of ordeals being conducted in the baptistery at the east end of Canterbury cathedral where former archbishops were buried — and so confused the ecclesiastical and the secular law , the law of the Church and the law of the State . |
| 2 | At Beverley , where John of Beverley was bishop of York throughout the reign , Osred was remembered for his benefactions ; but the picture given in Aethelwulf 's De Abbatibus , written in the early ninth century , is of an uncontrollable youth who slew many of his nobles and drove others to seek refuge in monastic life . |
| 3 | G. H. Burton considered this was reminiscent of Coleridge 's political satire , Recantation , Illustrated by the Story of the Mad Ox , written in the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him . |
| 5 | A secretary inevitably had access to highly confidential information : as Pecquet wrote in the early eighteenth century , " silence , loyalty and secrecy should reign in every secretariat " . |