Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [art] sixteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 3 | In the same way , herbs were introduced in the sixteenth century from Europe to North America , to be grafted on to the use already in existence of the herbs of the North American Indians who had a considerable and long-standing tradition of herbal cures from the plants native to their own continent . |
| 4 | The lofty tower was completed in the sixteenth century , its spire was added , to the original design , in the nineteenth . |
| 5 | Its marine branch was developed in the sixteenth century , although Lloyd 's Coffee House became its focus only from 1698 , producing its first " List " in 1734 and its Register from the 1750s . |
| 6 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 7 | No such distinction was made in the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | House of Shivas , nearby , was built in the sixteenth century , destroyed by fire in 1900 and has now been restored . |
| 9 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The cathedral is on Latin cross plan with projecting transepts ; these are square ended with towers over them ( though the upper part of one of these was destroyed in the sixteenth century ) . |
| 11 | Two prehistoric cairns stand above what was described in the sixteenth century as |