Example sentences of "[adj] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A representative nineteenth century collection , with Thackeray in original wrappers at either end , Charles Reade , George MacDonald and John Stuart Mill in original cloth ; and Tales of my Landlord and Walks in Oxford in boards with paper labels . |
| 2 | By day you can enjoy the reconstructed 15th century half-timbered houses in Römerberg along with museums — there 's seven of them along the Schaumainkai — and galleries aplenty . |
| 3 | Viborg Cathedral , though still on original lines , is extensively restored and so possesses that machine finished appearance typical of Scandinavian nineteenth century work . |
| 4 | An historic 17th Century Coaching Inn and birthplace of Welsh Rugby Union in 1991. 28 en suite bedrooms , all with colour TV , telephone , radio , trouser press , hairdryer , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 5 | One popular nineteenth century patterning was ‘ tree calf ’ , a delicate arboreal effect being produced by the interaction of chemicals . |
| 6 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 7 | It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level . |
| 8 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 9 | There may have been a wheel on this site since the 18th Century when the Macclesfield Company put down a shallow shaft — Bonsor West Shaft — at the north-westerly extremity of the old 17th Century open works . |
| 10 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 11 | This charming 17th century mansion is as yet relatively undiscovered , so you can enjoy the beauty of its gardens , the walks by ancient oaks and quiet lake without the pressure of people . |
| 12 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 13 | Amidst the vineyards and olive groves that surround Strove , this 17th century state has been restored to its original splendour and now far surpasses it in comfort . |
| 14 | This 17th century recipe is a variation on the now more common sage and onion stuffing |
| 15 | Another nineteenth century explorer ( like Bates , in South America ) was the German , Fritz Muller . |
| 16 | Displays of material of local interest , housed in an interesting 15th century chapel . |
| 17 | Chiu 's remarkably witty and lucid liner-notes quickly bury the myth that transcription is a somewhat impure or even dishonest genre by stating that when Bach transcribed Vivaldi ‘ There was no stigma of dishonour ’ , placing the notion of egotistical individuality in is proper Nineteenth Century context . |
| 18 | I 'm interested , thank you , I 'm interested to notice that this nineteenth century attitude is being repeated now by er , our friends over there in the Labour party , erm and I must say , that really confirm what I 've always thought that a lot of their attitudes and their mental furniture do in fact belong to that century . |
| 19 | Admittedly , there is a larger number of fourth century pavements ( differential preservation may be an important factor here ) : before the 1960's , but for those from Wheeler 's excavation at Verulamium , few pre-fourth century pavements were datable at all . |
| 20 | Among over forty pre-thirteenth century manuscripts on show are the famous Carolingian Lorsch Gospel , the Byzantine bible of Pope Leo and the Menologion of Basileos II . |
| 21 | Like many another eighteenth century town , its economy was becoming more complex and sophisticated . |
| 22 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 23 | As Laura 's personal taste was moving away from the little cottage sprigs , Jane believed it was important that she was not deluged in an avalanche of everything that was vaguely old ; that , for example , French eighteenth century was not mixed with Welsh nineteenth century . |
| 24 | In the Indian sale will be a Tibetan thirteenth century Buddha Ratnasambhara ( est. $40,000–60,000 ; £26,150–39,200 ) . |
| 25 | Eight miles north of Melbourne lies Derby where you can visit the interesting part-18th century and part-modern cathedral . |
| 26 | Among the few surprises in a generally lacklustre sale of nineteenth-century furniture and decorative arts at Sotheby 's New York on 13 February was a walnut library table , simply catalogued as ‘ American Walnut library table , third-quarter 19th century , Probably Philadelphia ’ , and estimated at $4–6,000 . |
| 27 | This would not have pleased the old 19th century residents who took care to have the information ‘ of South Newbald ’ or ‘ of North Newbald ’ recorded on their tombstones . |
| 28 | The ‘ new journalism ’ meant ‘ less politics … more ‘ sensation ’ and more ‘ sport ’ , the staples of the popular 19th century Sunday press ’ . |
| 29 | After focusing on nursery rhymes and Enid Blyton , the political puritans now have the legacy of the celebrated 19th century Danish storyteller under their microscope . |
| 30 | He said that the public policy which the court was implementing was not some 19th century economic theory about the benefit to the general public of freedom of trade , but the protection of those whose bargaining power is weak against being forced by those whose bargaining power is stronger to enter into bargains that are unconscionable . |