Example sentences of "century saw [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 2 | The following century saw the spread of Gnosticism , the believers in which laid claim to secret , or privileged , knowledge and so were called gnostikoi ( ‘ knowers ’ ) . |
| 3 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 4 | Indeed the great Puritan era of the seventeenth century saw the heyday of witchcraft . |
| 5 | The mid-nineteenth century saw the emergence in South East Asia of Asian capitalists who were initially subservient to Western interests , engaging in the expansion of primary exports and the distribution of imported Western manufactures . |