Example sentences of "[prep] [art] hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 2 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 3 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 4 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 5 | The trams have had events of their own to celebrate during the hundred years , generally firsts , rather than lasts . |
| 6 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 7 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 8 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 9 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 10 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 11 | In fact , during the Hundred Years War ( 1337 to 1453 ) , the people of Bordeaux took the English side , and many of the vineyards were destroyed in revenge . |
| 12 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 13 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 14 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 15 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 16 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 17 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 18 | In 1914 , Sulgrave Manor was presented by a body of British subscribers to the Peoples of Great Britain and the United States of America , in celebration of the Hundred Years Peace between the two nations . |
| 19 | Needless to say , I have a knowledge of the Hundred Years War and feuds between England and France . |
| 20 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 21 | Plantagenet claims to hold more extensive territories in France , which the period 1259–1340 was to do little to quell , are clearly worthy of serious consideration in any analysis of the origins of the Hundred Years War . |
| 22 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 23 | When Edward III wished to offer an especially lavish girt of twelve table vessels of pure gold , a great cup and ewer , twenty-four spoons , and forks ‘ on which to hold meat ’ to Pope Benedict XII on the eve of the Hundred Years War in 1337 , his agent still bought them in Paris . |
| 24 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 25 | The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests . |
| 26 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 27 | THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
| 28 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 29 | It is this decision which is taken to mark the beginning of the Hundred Years War . |
| 30 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |