Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] seventeenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in fact the Church 's power was being eroded throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Several previous generations of editors presented a picture of Shakespeare 's evolving genius based on complete plays jumping out of his head in a pattern of development that made those appearing in the seventeenth century ‘ more mature ’ than those appearing in the sixteenth . |
| 3 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route by which cattle from Scotland and the North of England reached the Midland pastures and London : hence its later name of The Drift . |
| 4 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The biggest jump in this evolutionary process occurred in the seventeenth century with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , which led to the establishment of the doctrine of the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 7 | Built during the seventeenth century , our new home was reputed to have been the birthplace of one of Northumberland 's most famous sons : Nicholas Ridley , Bishop of London . |
| 8 | situated to the north of Pall Mall near St James 's Palace , central London , and built in the seventeenth century on the site of the old St James 's Fields . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The part of this street above the church is known as the Rue de la Citadelle , because up to the right is the large classical citadel , built in the seventeenth century and reshaped soon after , along with the town walls , by the inescapable Vauban , whose job it was to make south-west France for ever safe from incursions from across the mountains . |
| 11 | Built in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 13 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 14 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 15 | Similar , but larger , is the Patriarchal Cathedral at Bucharest — dating from the seventeenth century and several times restored ( 235 ) . |
| 16 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 17 | Statements made in the seventeenth century about the desirability of separating science from religion have to be read against a background in which the excesses of an enchanted universe were straining credulity . |
| 18 | Another distinctive type of patinated metalwork , known as bidri , has been made since the seventeenth century or earlier and is produced in India to this day ( fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 19 | The bayonet , perhaps the greatest contribution to warfare made by the seventeenth century , was well established almost everywhere in Europe by the beginning of this period . |
| 20 | One obvious aspect of this was the attention which continued to be given throughout the seventeenth century to the public entry of a newly arrived ambassador to the capital in which he was taking up his post . |
| 21 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 22 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 23 | Such references to the freedom of the divine will were often used in the seventeenth century to justify attacks on rationalist theories of nature , whose authors presumed to know how God must have shaped the world . |
| 24 | The exemption is generally attributed to the seventeenth century writings of Sir Matthew Hale , and whilst this is in some measure correct , it is best understood in the context of the evolution of the law of rape as a whole . |
| 25 | The offences dealt with , however , have changed over the centuries , as shown by the seventeenth century records of the borough of West Looe . |
| 26 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 27 | The original doors of 1180 by Bonanno were replaced in the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Though the massive reclamation of the eastern Fenlands began in the seventeenth century it was not entirely successful . |
| 30 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |