Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was originally built in 1591 as a fishing lodge , and was purchased by Dutch immigrants in the seventeenth century for use as a cloth mill . |
| 2 | As the inhabitants were to inform the men who set out to drain these wetlands in the seventeenth century , this flood brought with it ‘ a thick fatt water ’ . |
| 3 | The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset . |
| 4 | Ann Messenger describes the condition of women writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in very different terms : |
| 5 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
| 6 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 7 | The purpose of the present chapter is to investigate in more detail the nature of Muscovite colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , drawing largely on the researches of a range of Soviet scholars , but particularly those of N.I . |
| 8 | Russian colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were aimed at maximizing the income of the state by the subjection of aboriginal peoples to fur tribute . |
| 9 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 10 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 11 | The Diary of Samuel Pepys , 11 vols. , 1970–83 ; Violet A. Rowe , Sir Henry Vane the Younger , 1970 ; B. Bailyn , The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century , 1955 ; Public Record Office , E.351 , Declared Accounts , Navy ; PROB/11/PCC 47 Penn , 129 North , 174 Pett . ] |
| 12 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 13 | Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat , the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730 . |
| 14 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 15 | The city was the centre of –he battles fought against the Sinhalese by foreign invaders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 16 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 17 | they played a vital military role until the introduction of firearms and new-formation regiments in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 3 vols. , 1982–4 ; private research . ] |
| 19 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 3 vols. , 1982–4 ; Public Record Office E101/676/51 , E351/306 . ] |
| 20 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 3 vols. , 1982–4 ; B. D. Henning , The House of Commons 1660–1690 , 1983 ; Victoria History of the Counties of England , Berkshire , vol. iv , 1924 , pp. 211–12 ; ibid. , Oxfordshire , vol. vii , 1962 , pp. 118 , 148–53 , 209–12 ; F. G. Lee , History of the Church of Thame , 1883 , pp. 85 , 218 ; Public Record Office , PROB/11/PCC 2 Coventry , 148 Lort . ] |
| 21 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 1982–4 ; M. Tolmie , The Triumph of the Saints , 1977 ; A. Woolrych , Commonwealth to Protectorate , 1982 ; Public Record Office , PROB/11/373 , 96 Drax . ] |
| 22 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 3 vols. , 1982–4 ; Public Record Office , State Papers Domestic . ] |
| 23 | Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century , 1984 ; W. Prest , The Rise of the Barristers , 1986 ; C. S. R. Russell , Parliaments and English Politics 1621–1629 , 1979 ; private research . ] |
| 24 | There are no obvious geographical barriers along this frontier and a series of invasions , from the Poles in the seventeenth century to Napoleon in the early nineteenth , have borne witness to its vulnerability . |
| 25 | The family came originally from Northamptonshire , making the transition from small open-field farmers to professional men in the seventeenth century , and its association with the Anglican Church was already three generations old when James was born . |
| 26 | The dominant attitude towards children in the seventeenth century had been autocratic , indeed ferocious . |
| 27 | Most of these schemes of settlement by proprietors which included half the mainland colonies in the seventeenth century , assumed that the proprietors would become great landlords of the old English type on a very grand scale . |
| 28 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 29 | Together with the Normande , the cattle of Brittany helped to create breeds as geographically distant as the Canadian and the colour-pointed Mauritius White , both of which are descended from stock of the old types : the Canadian was developed from cattle which accompanied French settlers in the seventeenth century and the Mauritius White in the eighteenth century . |