Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the fifteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 2 | An elaborate canopy was added in the fifteenth century . |
| 3 | The Gild Merchant was remodelled in the fifteenth century as the religious Gild of St George , but the power of the principal citizens continued to increase . |
| 4 | And that all if you put this together with the documents that we know , it suggests that there was a twelfth century church here which was demolished and then rebuilt in the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 6 | The only exception to the rounded , impregnable exterior is the richly carved stone porch , added in the fifteenth century to the south side . |
| 7 | This is the study of papers written in the fifteenth century or something |
| 8 | It has very interesting old cloisters built in the fifteenth century by order of Zarco 's son , João Gonçalves da Cãmara . |
| 9 | In the middle , surrounded by a wide moat still full of water , was the Rocca Sanvitale , an imposing brick castle originally built in the fifteenth century by the Sanvitale , one of the most illustrious and ancient families in Italy . |
| 10 | It was built in the fifteenth century and the paintings date from c. 1520 ; it is a very fine example indeed . |
| 11 | In literature too , the period sees the increasing use of English , and although some bilingual ( or even trilingual ) writing occurs in the fifteenth century , notably in macaronic verse , the major authors , from Chaucer and Langland through Malory to Skelton and Wyatt , wrote entirely or principally in English . |
| 12 | An important conclusion that can be drawn from the fiscal records is that the immediate effect of the Black Death in 1348–49 was slight in destroying communities , because most of the villages which eventually disappeared are still recorded as contributing to subsidies levied in the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 14 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 15 | In her autobiography , Dancing in the Light , the actress Shirley MacLaine mentions a school of Zen Buddhism founded in the fifteenth century by a Japanese master , Ikkyu . |
| 16 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | Again , as discussed in the Introduction , medieval towns continued to be founded until the fifteenth century . |
| 18 | To meet this demand springs began to be used in the fifteenth century in place of weights as the source of motive power in clocks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 21 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 22 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |
| 23 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 24 | This Muslim threat had become more pronounced in the fifteenth century after Sultan Salim of Istanbul had conquered Egypt and received the submission of the Hejaz . |
| 25 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 26 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 27 | It was recognised in the fifteenth century that the right had to give way to the public interest in the administration ofjustice . |
| 28 | The emperor Jahangir , who ruled in the fifteenth century , was said to have 12,000 war elephants in his personal army and over 40,000 in his entire kingdom . |
| 29 | Wild boars are roaming woodland they last inhabited in the fifteenth century . |
| 30 | More important , " envoy " ( known from the fifteenth century in its Latin form ablegatus ) was beginning to be widely used . |