Example sentences of "[num ord] century was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 2 | One of the most unusual figures of Portadown in the eighteenth century was the Very Reverend Stewart Blacker , something of a clerical pluralist , being Rector of Drumcree , Vicar of Seagoe , Archdeacon of Dromore and Dean of Leighlin . |
| 3 | Among the clubs frequented by the gentry of London in the eighteenth century was the Wig Club which owed its name to a wig , reputedly made of the pubic hair of the mistresses of King Charles II . |
| 4 | One innovation of the eighteenth century was the introduction of the patent self-locking iron coffin to foil body-snatchers . |
| 5 | The early eighteenth century was the most successful period of the School 's activity since its foundation . |
| 6 | One prevalent Orientalist value in the art of the 19th century was the male as noble savage , a manual labourer working honestly and humbly , albeit heroically . |
| 7 | For the middle class the mid-nineteenth century was the golden era of the middle-aged , when men reached the peak of their careers , earnings and activity and physiological decline had not yet become obvious . |
| 8 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 9 | The best treatment in the nineteenth century was the one that did the least harm to the patient . |
| 10 | According to Thompson the early nineteenth century was the time of : |
| 11 | But the late nineteenth century was the time that general health insurance was introduced in countries like Germany . |
| 12 | The most erratic variable of all is the far southern Eta Carinæ , which for a while during the nineteenth century was the brightest of all stars apart from Sirius , but is now below naked-eye visibility , though binoculars show it well . |
| 13 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 14 | The end of the nineteenth century was the climax of the Age of Science ; what remains for us is to glimpse briefly the aftermath of that confident period in which it seemed that all the interesting questions must have answers , and that it was the business of natural philosophy to find them out . |
| 15 | The third quarter of the nineteenth century was the first world-wide era of urban real-estate and constructional boom — for the bourgeoisie . |
| 16 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 17 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 18 | ( Not until the twentieth century was the office of prime minister to be mentioned in a statute . ) |
| 19 | The Lords ' remaining authority was in practice to be removed in consequence of the 1867 Reform Act , though not until the twentieth century was the House forced formally to accept its diminished status . |
| 20 | But the really significant judicial development that had taken place in the twelfth century was the staggering innovation of papal judges delegate . |
| 21 | One of the most successful families in Madeira at the end of the last century was the Hintons . |