Example sentences of "during [art] sixteenth " 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 | For those who carried out the purges of the English cathedrals and parish churches during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the artistic objects they destroyed were synonymous with paganism and superstition , and were thus the antithesis of true religion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The historical reality during the sixteenth and much of the seventeenth centuries was usually some kind of amalgam , such as that expressed by Martin Luther in his evaluation of alchemy : As the earthly alchemist purified through fire , leaving the dregs at the bottom of the furnace , so , at the Day of Judgment , the divine alchemist would separate all things through fire , the righteous from the ungodly . |
| 16 | In some ways the most striking development was the growth , during the sixteenth century , of a permanent diplomatic service . |
| 17 | Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state . |
| 18 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 19 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 20 | English music during the sixteenth century was prolific in every field and on the whole as remarkable in quality as in quantity . |
| 21 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries tenants throughout the realm had found that custom did not always give them the protection that they believed they had . |
| 22 | During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many copyholds were converted into leaseholds . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England became a semi-literate society in which even some of the agricultural labourers could read . |
| 25 | Terling 's population grew steadily during the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth . |
| 26 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries all the fishermen and most of the bargemen were freemen of fairly high status ; their homes were modest yet comfortable and they held their property on leases for years at a low annual rent but high entry fine . |
| 29 | During the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Mould family moved home frequently but their mobility was on a small scale and most members earned their living as tailors or smallholders or a combination of the two occupations . |
| 30 | Nor were foreign diplomats as yet much more welcome in Russia than during the sixteenth century . |