Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Minutes of the meeting held on the seventeenth November . |
| 10 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 11 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 12 | The establishment of serfdom conditioned the way in which the relationship between State and society developed from the seventeenth century onwards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 17 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | 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 . |