Example sentences of "who lived [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 3 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 4 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 5 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 6 | William of Newburgh , who lived in the twelfth century , records a folktale about the large Neolithic round barrow known as Willy Howe . |
| 7 | But Manetho , who lived in the third century BC , wrote in Greek and his work must be regarded as Hellenistic in character rather than Egyptian . |