Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 9 | 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 . |