Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] fifteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 2 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 3 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 4 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | The Gild Merchant was remodelled in the fifteenth century as the religious Gild of St George , but the power of the principal citizens continued to increase . |
| 6 | An elaborate canopy was added in the fifteenth century . |
| 7 | Originally built by order of Constança Rodriguez , the wife of Zarco , it was rebuilt in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 8 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 9 | It was built in the fifteenth century and the paintings date from c. 1520 ; it is a very fine example indeed . |
| 10 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 11 | Its form was settled in the fifteenth century , and well before 1485 there was no longer any doubt that the House of Commons was an integral part of Parliament , as necessary to its existence as the Lords : no statute was valid without its consent . |
| 12 | ‘ It was started in the fifteenth century . ’ |
| 13 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |