Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes the railway line into the city 's Central Station , itself a notable piece of railway building , designed by John Dobson , the architect who was responsible for so much of Newcastle 's new central stylishness in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Precisely this point is made by one of the most subtle and underrated religious writers on the philosophy of religion in the nineteenth century , John Henry Newman . |
| 3 | When we think of religion in the eighteenth century , we are inclined to do so in terms of deists , sceptical philosophers and other pundits appropriate to the Age of Reason . |
| 4 | An interpretation that stresses the separation of science from religion in the seventeenth century is far from implausible . |
| 5 | If we are looking for a separation of science from religion in the seventeenth century , we shall surely find it . |
| 6 | This association of empiricism with piety underlines the difficulty facing theses that affirm a separation of science from religion in the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Piero Fornasetti , a Milanese whose contribution to the decorative arts in the Twentieth Century has been described as visionary , trained as a painter and sculptor . |
| 8 | ‘ Towards the Millennium ’ is the city 's own annual festival celebrating the arts in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | It should however be added that there were important elements , especially in the theology of the two Hodges , which foreshadowed the revival of a fresher form of Calvinist thinking in the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Hale 's statement that a wife is not to be by her husband prostituted to another has also influenced judicial thinking in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | This concept of the extended garden , one which fell in line so well with our undulating country and expanses of fine grass , was to dominate horticultural thinking in the eighteenth century and a mutual exchange of thoughts and plants continually crossed the Channel . |
| 12 | The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives . |
| 13 | In 1842 , the European proposal — which was to contain the seeds of so much grief in the next century — was accepted by the Turks ; Mount Lebanon was divided into two sectors , a Christian canton in the north and a Druze canton in the south , with the main Beirut– Damascus highway marking the boundary between them . |
| 14 | Oakridge is generally associated with an episode in the mid-19th century when local men burnt down what was intended to become Stroud 's new isolation hospital . |
| 15 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 16 | The result of the vote is at least a hopeful sign that sexist dinosaurs are on their last legs in the 20th Century . |
| 17 | This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations . |
| 18 | The scepticism towards which , in Berkeley 's view , much seventeenth-century philosophy implicitly tended , is not unrelated to the traditional Greek scepticism which was brought to light in the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | The Philistines ( one of the trading Sea Peoples , many of whom settled the east Mediterranean coastlands ) , who gave their name to Palestine , invaded the area in force in the 12th century BC . |
| 20 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 21 | Certainly in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries no other kadilik approached the status of those of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne — none appears to have attained even the status achieved by Damascus and Aleppo in the sixteenth century — and it therefore seems fairly certain that the 300 akce a day given to the kadis of the three Ottoman capitals represented the highest allowances given to any kadi at that period . |
| 22 | Continental strategy was uppermost during Marlborough 's campaigns in the war of the Spanish Succession in the eighteenth century and during the First World War , though Britain 's maritime effort was far from insignificant . |
| 23 | The vast number of self-instituted independent organizations in the nineteenth century , and into the twentieth century , can in many cases be directly related to two related factors : the development of the teaching academy , with its tendency to prescribe rules ; and the greatly increased importance of the exhibition , within the market conditions which had succeeded patronage . |
| 24 | When examining Barbarossa as a legendary character , this image appears again , from a traditional source collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 26 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |
| 27 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 28 | Preliminary research shows that Melsonby was originally a Viking settlement and merits a mention in the eleventh century Domesday Book . |
| 29 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 30 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |