Example sentences of "century the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the increasing burden of excise duty , however , that has reduced the strength of mild : at the turn of the century the average gravity of mild ale in Britain was 1050 degrees , the strength of a powerful modern bitter . |
| 2 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 3 | In the thirteenth century the King of france , abetted by a weak Pope , very brutally suppressed the Order of Templars and appropriated their enormous wealth . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century the actress Sarah Bernhardt , ‘ attracted by the Absolute , ’ as one guidebook puts it , built a chateau high on the cliff near its northernmost end , the Pointe des Poulains ( Foals ' Point ) , where the offshore rocks are said to resemble young horses galloping in the swaying navy-blue sea . |
| 5 | Since the twelfth century the Bishop of Durham had a manor , and lived here except during the Commonwealth when bishops were in exile and this was the seat of the general who governed the North . |
| 6 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 7 | By the middle of the eighteenth century the Parliament of England first and then Great Britain had established de facto control over all aspects of government . |
| 8 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 9 | As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite . |
| 10 | By the second and third decades of the twenty-first century the pension commitments would probably involve a major burden upon a smaller number of taxpayers , who might not be prepared to carry it . |
| 11 | In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore . |
| 12 | In the present century the combined emblems of Isabella 's yoke ( Y for Ysabella ) and her husband Ferdinand 's arrows ( Flechas ) were expropriated by the Falangists in an attempt to claim some historical legitimacy . |
| 13 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the police were increasingly active against all sorts of minor public offences such as drunken or disorderly behaviour or the playing of street games . |
| 14 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 15 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 16 | Twice this century the US has joined our European tribal wars to ensure that our continent should not be dominated by any single power . |
| 17 | In the last century the British deemed the wild mountainous regions of the Pashtuns too costly and too difficult to conquer . |
| 18 | In the eighteenth century the Wentworths of Hembury in Dorset inherited Trerice , and it was let to tenants . |
| 19 | During the sixteenth century the Brydges bought up the neighbouring estate belonging to the Garways ( now called Garnstone ) , and at the height of their affluence James Brydges married Jane Blount and built The Ley exactly as you see it today . |
| 20 | Although remote rural areas remained unaffected , by the middle of the seventeenth century the rebirth of classicism had begun to transform the face of England . |
| 21 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 22 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 23 | In the early eighteenth century the Piggot family decided to modernize their humble and rambling seventeenth-century manor and called in the best local builder , perhaps from Stanford in the Vale , a rather grand village displaying much architectural refinement . |
| 24 | Later in the nineteenth century the Lodge became the rectory for St Mary 's Church of Easton Neston , which it remained until the 1880s . |
| 25 | It is a fickle , too-short season and for much of this century the Soviet Union 's granaries have never been quite full enough for domestic and political comfort . |
| 26 | In the past century the institutions and the external stimuli affecting the relation between finance and industry have been chopped and changed . |
| 27 | But towards the end of the century the ideal began to emerge that not merely the essentials , but also the whole of religion could be discovered by reason , and that nothing ‘ above reason ’ should be a part of it . |
| 28 | In the seventeenth century the Chancery had to struggle for its independence against the Common Law Courts . |
| 29 | In the first decade of the century the Rev. Richard Cecil ( 1748–1810 ) , a leading Evangelical preacher and one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society , had expressed doubt on this score : |
| 30 | By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God . |