Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] seventeenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Sigriswil has a charming church of St Gallus , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century with a baroque interior . ) |
| 2 | Steffisburg has in its historic centre some buildings of considerable character : a church , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century but with a Romanesque tower that has a wooden belfry and spire ; and two adjacent buildings known as the Hochhuser , the larger of which is transitional between the Bernese farmhouse and the country mansion styles and has a hipped roof on a really magnificent scale . |
| 3 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 4 | The cathedral was built in the early seventeenth century on the site of the Palace of Viracocha , the Inca 's Creator deity . |
| 5 | part of the Temple , built in the early seventeenth century , twice destroyed by fire and last rebuilt in 1848 . |
| 6 | To its left the church of La Compañia de Jesus , built in the late seventeenth century on the site of the Palace of Serpents , had a similarly ornate façade . |
| 7 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Most people are familiar with the hedge maze , the most famous being the Hampton Court Maze , dating from the late seventeenth century . |
| 9 | The growth of the British Empire and in particular the requirements of the Royal Navy produced Chatham in 1622 and Devonport in the late seventeenth century . |
| 10 | In fact it has been carefully managed for centuries and was indeed enclosed in the late seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Assurance against death began in the late seventeenth century ; properly funded schemes based on actuarial principles were available from 1762 ( Ogborn 1962 ) , a product of the advance of science and of financial services . |
| 12 | The Zunfthaus zur Waag , where the linen craftsmen used to meet , survives from the early seventeenth century , and the Zunfthaus zur Meise , built approximately a century later , was the meeting place of the wine merchants . |
| 13 | Set in the late seventeenth century , this story of a three-cornered relationship depends on active events vigorously described but ill supported by very generalised characters . |
| 14 | Literacy rates among artisans and shopkeepers was much higher : 80 per cent or more would seem a reasonable approximation for the level reached by the late seventeenth century and persisting through most of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 16 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 17 | Well Locke 's contemporaries would know exactly what he meant in the late seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 19 | When traffic increased from the late seventeenth century onwards , usually only one of the various alternatives was improved . |
| 20 | The merits of pensions , extending this practice to those on salaries , were debated from the late seventeenth century onwards , with leading advocates including Daniel Defoe , and later the radical Thomas Paine of the French Revolution years . |
| 21 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |