Example sentences of "[adj] seventeenth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where DO you go to find authentic Seventeenth Century arms and clothing ? |
| 2 | It also helps us to see that if ( as was apparent in the early seventeenth century ) identity is clearly constituted by the structures of power , of position , allegiance , and service , then any disturbance within , or of , identity could be as dangerous to that order as to the individual subject . |
| 3 | So it is worth recalling at the outset of this discussion that it is in these senses that the female cross-dresser of the early seventeenth century could be described as an ‘ invert ’ or ‘ pervert ’ , and hardly at all in the sense of those words as coined and popularized by the nineteenth-century sexologists and , later , psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | The female transvestite was indeed a deeply disturbing figure in the early seventeenth century . ’ |
| 5 | But it the hermaphrodite threatens the binarism of gender through ambiguous unity , the female transvestite of the early seventeenth century positively disrupts that same scheme by usurping the master side of the opposition . |
| 6 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |
| 7 | It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century . |
| 8 | After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the estate and rectory came to the Sleigh family in the early seventeenth century , and among other Sleigh family memorials in the chancel of St Michael 's is a remarkable Jacobean monument of a black coffin , instead of an effigy , in memory of Judith , first wife of Sir Samuel Sleigh . |
| 9 | Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century . |
| 10 | This scabious was the first one to reach Britain from Italy in the early seventeenth century , and was known as ‘ The Mournful Widow ’ . |
| 11 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 12 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 13 | The cathedral was built in the early seventeenth century on the site of the Palace of Viracocha , the Inca 's Creator deity . |
| 14 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 15 | part of the Temple , built in the early seventeenth century , twice destroyed by fire and last rebuilt in 1848 . |
| 16 | For 200 years , from the foundation of Portadown in the early seventeenth century until the early years of the nineteenth century , there was no church in the town . |
| 17 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Poland had access to a coastline for the first time since the early seventeenth century . |
| 19 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 20 | In the early seventeenth century , science was still married to religion . |
| 21 | The laying-out and washing of a corpse , the ‘ dressing and trimming ’ as it was known , might have been performed by a member of the family , though by the early seventeenth century it was more usual , both in town and country , for this service to be provided by the coffin-maker . |
| 22 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 23 | As in much of the previous century , during the early seventeenth century the English church was obliged to define itself in relation to the rival religious power blocs within continental Europe . |
| 24 | An insistence on international support and co-operation had been a central feature of missionary Calvinism from its inception , and during the early seventeenth century it was regarded as essential to the survival of the Reformed faith in the face of the threat from a resurgent counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 25 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 26 | The absence of explanatory panels on the walls means that the exhibition in no sense really ‘ begins ’ , and the visitor is left to divine for himself that there is a rough chronological divide between the early seventeenth century at Palazzo Spinola and the later decades , initiated by works of Valerio Castello and Parodi , at Palazzo Reale . |
| 27 | £80–120,000 ( $150–220,000 ) is expected for a Florentine bronze statuette of the Knife-Grinder after the antique , No.14 from the French Royal Inventory of Louis XIV , and a Netherlandish figure of Venus Marina of the early seventeenth century is expected to sell for a similar figure . |
| 28 | The rulers o Japan from the early seventeenth century attempted to confirm their dominance by restricting all political , social and economic change in the country to within rigidly defined limits . |
| 29 | Even in the early seventeenth century commercial transactions had advanced far beyond the simple barter level , and with an increasing proportion of the population not directly engaged in agricultural production , non-producers had to be supplied with the cash to purchase the necessities of life , as well as its luxuries . |
| 30 | An example from the astronomical debates of the early seventeenth century may illuminate this selective role of religious belief . |