Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 2 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 3 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 4 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 6 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 7 | The biggest jump in this evolutionary process occurred in the seventeenth century with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , which led to the establishment of the doctrine of the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 8 | Statements made in the seventeenth century about the desirability of separating science from religion have to be read against a background in which the excesses of an enchanted universe were straining credulity . |
| 9 | The bayonet , perhaps the greatest contribution to warfare made by the seventeenth century , was well established almost everywhere in Europe by the beginning of this period . |
| 10 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Several recent works on British history have examined the development of craft production , consumption and the increase in material culture , with volumes concentrating upon the seventeenth century ( Thirsk 1978 ) , the eighteenth century ( McKendrick , Brewer and Plumb 1983 ) , and the results of the industrial revolution in the later nineteenth century ( e.g. Fraser 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Minutes of the meeting held on the seventeenth November . |
| 13 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 14 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 16 | Reference has been made elsewhere to the early county histories written in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , sometimes by gentlemen in the priesthood . |
| 17 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | The establishment of serfdom conditioned the way in which the relationship between State and society developed from the seventeenth century onwards . |
| 19 | The American Museum in Britain shows , through a series of completely furnished rooms with original panelling brought from the United States , how the Americans lived from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 20 | The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment . |
| 21 | Though the massive reclamation of the eastern Fenlands began in the seventeenth century it was not entirely successful . |
| 22 | That night in the library of his house , Leithen talked about the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | The form which this idea normally took , that of a federation of States ruled by some central body which included representatives of all of them , was probably encouraged by the great political and economic success achieved in the seventeenth century by the new federation of the United Provinces . |
| 24 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 26 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Originally a triple-purpose breed developed in the seventeenth century at a Benedictine abbey , the sturdy Aubrac ( or Laguiole ) is now primarily a beef type , though of no great size , the bulls averaging 130cm tall and 825kg , and the cows 125cm and 600kg . |
| 28 | He holed from five feet to force a play-off , but lost it when the pair returned to the seventeenth , by missing the green and fluffing a recovery chip halfway to the hole . |