Example sentences of "century [coord] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 2 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 3 | Sociological positivism emerged mainly in the nineteenth century and particularly flourished in the French intellectual tradition . |
| 4 | It was rebuilt on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque cathedral in the early thirteenth century and largely completed by 1237 . |
| 5 | Inset Alpine skiing began as a winter sport at the turn of the century and today accounts for billions in tourism revenue . |
| 6 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 7 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |
| 8 | Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties . |
| 9 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 10 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 11 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 12 | In the east of the shire , there was some enclosure as early as the 1250s , it was well under way by the middle of the fourteenth century and virtually complete by the mid fifteenth . |
| 13 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 14 | The English Poor Laws , first effective from the late 16th century and radically revised in 1834 , had always proved a headache to those who administered them . |
| 15 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 16 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Shiites believe that there were eleven Imams after Ali and that the twelfth Imam disappeared from human view around then ninth century but still exists in spirit . |