Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within that wider development , the credibility of Christian faith itself first came to be seriously challenged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — in what is commonly called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment . |
| 2 | Such references to the freedom of the divine will were often used in the seventeenth century to justify attacks on rationalist theories of nature , whose authors presumed to know how God must have shaped the world . |
| 3 | The exemption is generally attributed to the seventeenth century writings of Sir Matthew Hale , and whilst this is in some measure correct , it is best understood in the context of the evolution of the law of rape as a whole . |
| 4 | The ideal is splendidly expressed in the seventeenth century by Ben Jonson in his poem ‘ To Penshurst ’ : |
| 5 | The west doorway , richly decorated with sculptured figures , is in late Gothic style , but was not constructed till the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | The idea that humans had no direct moral responsibilities or duties to safeguard the welfare of animals was further reinforced in the seventeenth century by René Descartes ' mechanistic proposition that only humans possessed rational souls and feelings , and that animals were essentially automata devoid of conscious sensation . |
| 7 | In any case , the land and time left at their disposal was steadily reduced from the seventeenth century as pomeshchiks and monasteries expanded their demesne and exacted dues in labour ( barshchina ) rather than quit-rent ( obrok ) . |