Example sentences of "a [num ord] century " in BNC.
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1 | This pub was originally a 17th century timber frame jettied building ; in the early 19th century its front was removed and a new rendered facade added . |
2 | The kitchen doubles as a dining room , and the family gathers for meals around a 17th century oak tavern table scored with the marks of games of shove-halfpenny . |
3 | The Abbey , a 17th Century mansion , in a beautiful parkland setting , was once a medieval nunnery . |
4 | For instance , a night and half board at The Red Lion , a 17th century coaching inn at Grasmere , is available for £46 . |
5 | Included are a Georgian manor with swimming pool near Cambridge , a 17th Century inn with solarium at Chelmarsh , Shropshire , and a former 19th Century vicarage in Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland . |
6 | If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning . |
7 | Then there are the intimate , human scale museums such as the Anne Frank House , Second World War hiding place of the fated Jewish girl made famous through her diaries or the Amstelkring Museum , a church attic in a 17th century canal house . |
8 | Beautiful museum of a 17th century Catholic Place of Worship . |
9 | Converted from a 17th century paper mill , this hotel is built into the cliffs just half a mile from the resort of Minori . |
10 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
11 | Originally a 17th century patrician house , this is a lovely unpretentious hotel with the comforts and atmosphere of a private home . |
12 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
13 | A 17th century six-storey building with interesting painted ceiling and wall decoration . |
14 | In a rural setting , just 10 minutes from the NEC and Birmingham Airport , this imaginative conversion of a 17th century farmhouse has provided an elegant and charming hotel with all modern comforts . |
15 | Housed in a 17th century cottage , this fine collection of local domestic , agricultural , trade and craft tools forms one of Oxfordshire 's oldest small museums , set up by Mr George Swinford in the 1920s . |
16 | I hired my somewhat reluctant steed from the East Farm in Abbotsbury , a working stud farm with the good fortune of having a 17th century thatched cottage as its farmhouse . |
17 | This item is a 17th century escutcheon plate from a drawer |
18 | Pond finds — a 17th century spur , 16th and 17th century buckles , a complete crotal bell , and 17th century coins weights . |
19 | A few evenings on this field , which had previously seemed barren , produced : crotal and rumbler bones ; medieval and Georgian buckles ; fifty copper coins ( 17th to 19th century ) ; buttons , a 17th century spoon ; a piece of 18th century watch fob ; and the smallest barrel lock that I have ever seen . |
20 | Item No 1 : this appears to be a 17th century cloth fastener though it is much larger than normal . |
21 | Bordallo , 63 , shot himself in the centre of the island 's capital Agaña , chained to the statue of a 17th century Chamorro chief and wrapped in the island 's flag . |
22 | The medal was awarded for this beautiful crystal wheel skeleton clock which is based on a 17th century design . |
23 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
24 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |
25 | Do you know where I mean ? erm Well , that too , is a 17th century building , I 've got a an early 19th century Butler engraving of it here , and some pictures from the Alice shop itself , Now that was owned by a Walter Paine , both these citizens were well off brewers , erm those are just pictures of the same one , it 's a little bit of a problem because this is called the house belonging to the manciple of Christchurch . |
26 | Nor were the adherents of this strategy reticent about their heritage , with one Thatcherite Cabinet Minister acknowledging in 1982 , ‘ I am a nineteenth century Liberal . |
27 | As an introduction to a nineteenth century poet named John Jones , Southey discusses the careers of John Taylor , the seventeenth century waterman poet , and then four eighteenth century figures , Stephen Duck , James Woodhouse , John Frederick Bryant , and Ann Yearsley . |
28 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
29 | For this he has to thank — or curse — Mr Glanville , a nineteenth century vicar of Sheviock . |
30 | A procedure called hanning , named after its protagonist , a nineteenth century Austrian meteorologist called Julius von Hann , goes some way to meeting these criticisms . |