Example sentences of "[art] hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 2 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 3 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 4 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 5 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 6 | The trams have had events of their own to celebrate during the hundred years , generally firsts , rather than lasts . |
| 7 | In fact to judge the book as a whole in determining if it was obscene had generally been the practice in law for the hundred years since the Hicklin case . |
| 8 | In 1914 , Sulgrave Manor was presented by a body of British subscribers to the Peoples of Great Britain and the United States of America , in celebration of the Hundred Years Peace between the two nations . |
| 9 | Mention the economic and social sequelae , the effect on the Hundred Years ' War when soldiers , too , fell victim … the weakening of England 's hold on territories in France . |
| 10 | I 've always been very interested in the Hundred Years ’ War . |
| 11 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 12 | Needless to say , I have a knowledge of the Hundred Years War and feuds between England and France . |
| 13 | In the hundred years after he died , the Pilgrim 's Progress found an increasingly wide readership among Nonconformists . |
| 14 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 15 | Politically , the road ran via numerous conflicts — the Hundred Years ' War , the English Civil War , the French Revolution and the American War of Independence , for example — to the emergence of modern democracy , and through more recent upheavals to the communist alternative . |
| 16 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 17 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 18 | Plantagenet claims to hold more extensive territories in France , which the period 1259–1340 was to do little to quell , are clearly worthy of serious consideration in any analysis of the origins of the Hundred Years War . |
| 19 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 20 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 21 | When Edward III wished to offer an especially lavish girt of twelve table vessels of pure gold , a great cup and ewer , twenty-four spoons , and forks ‘ on which to hold meat ’ to Pope Benedict XII on the eve of the Hundred Years War in 1337 , his agent still bought them in Paris . |
| 22 | Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained . |
| 23 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 24 | If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant . |
| 25 | The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests . |
| 26 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 27 | The exhibition closes with the important social and constitutional developments of the period : the development of towns ( with a section devoted to the Jewish communities ) ; the institution of the civil service ; the beginnings of German federalism ; and the first electoral laws are among the aspects which document how the hundred years of Salien rule shaped German history to come . |
| 28 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 29 | THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
| 30 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |