Example sentences of "to the sixteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone loves dressing up , you know ’ , my ten year-old companion said to me as we walked together through Charlecote Park in Warwickshire down the long driveway to the sixteenth century gatehouse . |
| 3 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 4 | The mace , or goedendag , was a weapon used throughout Europe up to the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | The Brularts , who held the rank of Marquis of Sillery and Marquis of Puisieulx , were a winemaking family whose reputation goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | The Pinot Meunier is a variant of the Pinot Noir , dating back to the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | The old town ( zono velha ) of Funchal , which is at the far ( eastern ) end of Avenida das Comunidades Madeirenses ( the sea-front road ) past the power station , is the oldest part of Funchal , dating back to the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 9 | The exhibition spans the period from 3,000 BC to the sixteenth century , with most of the exhibits dating from the first to the third century AD . |
| 10 | It is true that , from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century , the pursuit of natural knowledge was often subordinate to theological concerns . |
| 11 | From the thirteenth to the sixteenth century , the study of nature had , in various ways , been subordinate to theological interests . |
| 12 | Up to the sixteenth century or so , most people in Britain lived in the countryside . |
| 13 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | It includes the present D thirty nine site , near to the sixteenth or seventeenth century Skelton Manor House , and it has important archaeological and nature conservation interests as described in reports . |
| 15 | There was an informal academy of painters and sculptors , attended by Michelangelo , in Florence at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | ‘ That was a d — good answer of yours , A , to the sixteenth question . ’ |
| 17 | The Karpf is the oldest wildlife reserve in Switzerland , dating back to the sixteenth century , where chamois , ibex and marmots can be seen in the wild . |
| 18 | They go up to the sixteenth floor at once , not at all sure what they are going to do . |
| 19 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | But let us get back to the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | There have been a number of studies of the development of estates attached to monasteries which persisted through to the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | Old maps help , especially if they go back to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries , and surveys of earthworks can also show early elements . |
| 23 | If we ignore the majority of buildings in villages which invariably date to the sixteenth century and later , we are left with settlement plans of bewildering complexity . |
| 24 | We do not know , however , how old Lettaford is ( the oldest longhouse dates only to the sixteenth century ) or what its earlier arrangements were . |
| 25 | Built high above the river Aude , it constitutes a museum of military architecture extending from fifth century Visigoths to the sixteenth century . |
| 26 | German woodcarving was of a very high standard in the fourteenth to the sixteenth century , and these examples , together with those at Munich , are among the finest . |
| 27 | The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | Though the backgrounds of the successful ironmongers were varied , nearly all their families can be traced back in the neighbourhood to the sixteenth century , either through a direct line or through marriage . |