Example sentences of "the [adj] century but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antisemitism was not the creation of the nineteenth century but it revived in intensity about 1880 . |
| 2 | The Playnes used it as a cloth mill in the 19th century but it was also a saw mill . |
| 3 | The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it . |
| 4 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 5 | Sea bathing developed in the mid-eighteenth century but it still remained somewhat select until the railway arrived . |