Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the seventeenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 4 | Similar , but larger , is the Patriarchal Cathedral at Bucharest — dating from the seventeenth century and several times restored ( 235 ) . |
| 5 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 7 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |
| 8 | Several recent works on British history have examined the development of craft production , consumption and the increase in material culture , with volumes concentrating upon the seventeenth century ( Thirsk 1978 ) , the eighteenth century ( McKendrick , Brewer and Plumb 1983 ) , and the results of the industrial revolution in the later nineteenth century ( e.g. Fraser 1981 ) . |