Example sentences of "[prep] the fifteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're in early again this morning , ’ he said as Endill collected his climbing equipment for the fifteenth time that week . |
| 2 | One had just arrived at ground floor level ; Tom followed two girl clerks into it and pressed the button for the fifteenth floor . |
| 3 | Can I also draw your attention to another date which is the Thursday the seventeenth of September which is the regional press launch for the fifteenth international Tyneside film festival . |
| 4 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 5 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 6 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 7 | Two letters , one for the first one for the fifteenth . |
| 8 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 9 | Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude . |
| 10 | The illuminated manuscripts known as Books of Hours , produced in the Lowlands during the fifteenth century , particularly those containing the Office of the Dead , not only show how corpses were dressed at that time but also indicate how the limbs were positioned . |
| 11 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 12 | The Greeks could not forgive this outrage and when , during the fifteenth century , they repeatedly asked the West for help against the Ottoman Turks , the Latins were decidedly lukewarm in their response . |
| 13 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 14 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 15 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | Considerations of this kind probably help to account for some interesting changes in the tenure of offices during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 17 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 18 | During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the humanist " revolution " in educational ideas led to a privileging of classical literature as the means of providing a liberal education , although this was later considerably transformed into a narrow disciplinary process tied to the maintenance of social distinctions . |
| 19 | As the Ottoman threat advanced northward through Bosnia and Serbia during the fifteenth century , Christian Europe prepared to resist . |
| 20 | This trade came to an end during the fifteenth century . |
| 21 | Also , during the fifteenth century there was a more considerable transforming influence in the movement for enclosures , which had brought an increasing area under grazing at the expense of arable ( Ch.5 ) . |
| 22 | During the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries there were intermittent popular revolts , but apart from that of Jack Cade in 1450 , they tended to be far more limited in scope than that of 1381 . |
| 23 | This was not universal — some tenants held land by custom alone , without possessing a copy of the court roll entry , and they were generally more vulnerable to pressure from their lords , as legal protection was gradually extended to copyhold tenants by the courts both of common law and of equitable jurisdiction during the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | During the fifteenth century , the laws of supply and demand worked in favour of the peasantry . |
| 25 | The relative absence of major revolts during the fifteenth century probably reflects the fundamental state of the economy , and it is perhaps a reasonable assumption that the basic prosperity of the peasantry in their relations with the land-owning class contributed to this . |
| 26 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 27 | But the most important aspect of the project has been the excavation of domestic buildings built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | In addition to the forced conversions of Christian boys through the devşirme system , there were also voluntary conversions which took place gradually between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and which help to explain the presence in modern Bosnia of a large Slav-speaking Muslim community . |
| 29 | In and near Moscow are a number of other monasteries and churches built between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries , all of Byzantine character but displaying individually Russian features particularly in the domes and the stepped ogee , triangular and rounded shell formations ( called kokoshniki ) which topped the main building and acted as a base for the tower or cupola drums . |
| 30 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |