Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasional springtime dust storms in the Fens are even invoked as an ominous example , although these are caused by the drying out of the peat soils and have occurred since the Fens were drained in the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Plumb ( 1.2 ) traces changes in the way children were treated between the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Though parts were altered in the seventeenth century , the Tudor Great Hall , entrance court and river façade remain as a tribute to Cardinal Wolsey 's foresight and taste . |
| 4 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 5 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 6 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 7 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 8 | The original doors of 1180 by Bonanno were replaced in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 11 | Large numbers of Dutch cattle were imported during the seventeenth century to improve the fattening and milking abilities of some of the Welsh cattle . |
| 12 | These canals were dug in the seventeenth century ( in 1630 and 1650 ) as part of the great engineering work undertaken by the Earl of Bedford to reclaim valuable agricultural land from the sea . |
| 13 | The principles of logarithms were discovered in the seventeenth century ; they gave a tremendous technical spur to navigation , astronomy and to the growing commercial sector , facilitating tedious calculations , like nineteen months ' interest at an annual rate of 2.79 per cent . |
| 14 | A host of other falsifications were accumulated during the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 16 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 17 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 18 | Codes and cyphers still gave some protection against this , and in one or two cases at least cryptography was carried in the seventeenth century to a level which was not to be surpassed for generations to come . |
| 19 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 20 | From here there is a good view of the fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição which was built in the seventeenth century on the Loo Rock to protect ships in the harbour . |
| 21 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century . |
| 23 | In essence a massive L-shaped tower with walls 12 feet thick , a well and a pit dungeon , it was adapted in the seventeenth century for more comfortable and less defensive living . |
| 24 | The system of devşirme ( see above , pp. 37–8 ) , by which Christian boys were forcibly enlisted , was abandoned in the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | In reality , however , the Russians ' ’ higher , culture was represented in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by soldiers ( men of service ) and colonial administrators out for personal gain , and by peasants , whose building-tools were of the simplest — the axe , gouge and spokeshave ( although they could do wonders with these ) . |
| 26 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 27 | In contrast , the atomistic physics which was revived in the seventeenth century concentrated on quantifiable properties . |
| 28 | The civic pride survived the crisis of the Armada and was reinforced in the seventeenth century by the acceptance of divine predestination given by the popularity of Puritanism in the town . |
| 29 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 30 | The conversion of the Albanians was achieved during the seventeenth century largely through a discriminatory taxation system , the djize , which imposed severe burdens upon those who remained Christians . |