Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the sixteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 2 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 3 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 4 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | It has a single dome ( rebuilt in the sixteenth century ) supported on four piers and a tri-apsidal east end . |
| 6 | In the Exchequer , as we have seen , they had come by the sixteenth century to be usual even for so important an officer as the Chancellor . |
| 7 | Here , and at Mudford , the peasants decided in the sixteenth century to enclose the open fields and reallocate land , but there is no dramatic single or well-documented event to explain the picture we can see in the landscape today . |
| 8 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 9 | House of Shivas , nearby , was built in the sixteenth century , destroyed by fire in 1900 and has now been restored . |
| 10 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | About the time the original chapel was being built in the sixteenth century , a wooden crucifix was washed ashore in a box . |
| 12 | Other earthworks probably indicate an irrigation or leat system built in the sixteenth century to help the Spencer family 's ranching activities . |
| 13 | The royal church at Tîrgoviste not far from Curtea de Arges is one of these , built in the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | He owned over 100,000 acres ; most of his property was situated in the counties of Bute , Ayr , and Wigtown , but he was also a major proprietor in Glamorgan , where the Cardiff Castle estate , originally granted in the sixteenth century to William Herbert , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] , had passed to his grandfather through marriage . |
| 15 | This is an enchanting old inn , dating from the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | Standing in the old town is the Corpo Santo Chapel , dating from the sixteenth century , which is open all day for people to view the interior . |
| 17 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 18 | No such distinction was made in the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 20 | The rewards of office flowed in the sixteenth century down many tributary channels , not , as today , in the single river of salaries . |
| 21 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 22 | European penetration of Sri Lanka began in the sixteenth century , when the Portuguese established control over some coastal areas . |
| 23 | Observatories go back many centuries , perhaps even to Stonehenge ; but modern observatories in the West began in the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 25 | Built in 1490 and reconstructed in the sixteenth century , this picturesque dwelling was reputedly occupied by the great Protestant Reformer from 1561 to 1572 . |
| 26 | ( After the fall of the Greek Empire , the knowledge of many arts , including the art of horsemanship , gradually disappeared and did not re-emerge until the sixteenth century . ) |
| 27 | One of the major preoccupations of Soviet Russian ethnic historians , obliged to work within the framework of Marxist-Leninist dogma , is to define the level of social-political evolution which the peoples of Siberia had reached by the sixteenth century in terms of Marx 's five universal stages . |
| 28 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 29 | Above are Corinthian pilasters and a gold and white coffered ceiling , erected in the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | The lofty tower was completed in the sixteenth century , its spire was added , to the original design , in the nineteenth . |