Example sentences of "england [prep] the seventeenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 3 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 4 | It was brought to Europe and England in the seventeenth century , arriving on our shores from Holland via the East India Trading Company . |
| 5 | And this was provided , by revolutionary action in England in the seventeenth century , in America in the eighteenth , in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth , and by a variety of methods in most other Western countries sometime within those centuries . |