Example sentences of "[prep] [art] sixteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the sixteenth century the Brydges bought up the neighbouring estate belonging to the Garways ( now called Garnstone ) , and at the height of their affluence James Brydges married Jane Blount and built The Ley exactly as you see it today . |
| 2 | While on the subject of body odour , during the sixteenth century , valerian was a popular perfume . |
| 3 | During the sixteenth century , a series of proclamations targeted the major object of early police work — the ‘ suspectid person ’ and ‘ any maner of beggers or vacabond or eny evill disposed person ’ who were to be driven from the streets . |
| 4 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 5 | Discovered near the mouth of a pit in Coggleshall , eastern England , during the sixteenth century , according to Thomas Keightley in Fairy Mythology : |
| 6 | So-called from ‘ hak ’ , a species of snake , developing into the term ‘ hagge ’ during the sixteenth century to describe ‘ a succubus who sits on a man 's chest and gives him nightmares ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus among the most frequently cited examples of conjonctures are the increase in the population of western Europe during the sixteenth century , the rise and fall of European prices from 1791 to 1817 and 1817 to 1832 , and the pattern of wages during the same period . |
| 9 | The increase in the size of the European population during the sixteenth century provides a particularly striking example of such a transition , for while it can be fairly accurately charted and measured , its causes are not well understood . |
| 10 | Le Roy Ladurie 's explanation of this transition invokes , first of all , the rapid spread of the French language to the land of the langue d'oc during the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 12 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
| 13 | Diplomatic missions were received and sent from time to time , and during the sixteenth century Japanese traders and pirates dominated the seas of Southeast Asia , but both channels of contact virtually ceased in the seclusion period . |
| 14 | In some ways the most striking development was the growth , during the sixteenth century , of a permanent diplomatic service . |
| 15 | Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state . |
| 16 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 17 | English music during the sixteenth century was prolific in every field and on the whole as remarkable in quality as in quantity . |
| 18 | In general terms , renewed population growth and the corresponding rapid rise in the price of foodstuffs during the sixteenth century benefited the larger farmers ( for they were able to produce a surplus for the market ) and worsened the purchasing position of farm labourers whose relative wages sank as prices rose . |
| 19 | Terling 's population grew steadily during the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth . |
| 20 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 21 | Nor were foreign diplomats as yet much more welcome in Russia than during the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 23 | After the sixteenth century few new towns were established . |
| 24 | In the hall of the castle Sir John was reasoning with a group of servants while Lady Charlotte had hysterics under the portrait of a clan chief of the sixteenth century — an armoured and bearded warrior who looked down with an imperious black stare . |
| 25 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 26 | Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand . |
| 27 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 29 | But the great monarchs of the sixteenth century knew very well how to use that adulation to enhance their power . |
| 30 | The ceremony at Notre-Dame was one of the great royal spectacles of the sixteenth century . |