Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] seventeenth century " in BNC.
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1 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
2 | The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement . |
3 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
4 | By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries . |
5 | This set the pattern for all later accounts of El Cid up to the seventeenth century , when medieval sources were frequently questioned as to their ultimate accuracy . |
6 | Up to the seventeenth century the wines produced in Champagne were not the sparkling , brilliant white wines we know today : they were still wines , or vins tranquils . |
7 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
8 | The rivalry between these two , which went far back into the seventeenth century , was ended only by an agreeement of 1790 . |
9 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
10 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
11 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
12 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
13 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |