Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The system of devşirme ( see above , pp. 37–8 ) , by which Christian boys were forcibly enlisted , was abandoned in the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In contrast , the atomistic physics which was revived in the seventeenth century concentrated on quantifiable properties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |