Example sentences of "build [prep] the nineteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 2 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |
| 3 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 4 | The chief architect of the subsequent dock system built in the nineteenth century was Jesse Hartley , and Albert Dock is his greatest monument . |
| 5 | East of Manningtree on the Stour estuary , this village possesses a fine range of maltings built in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Around Stoney Street ( south-east of city centre near St Mary 's Church ) is a commercial complex built in the nineteenth century , occupying a considerable part of the medieval town 's former area , and now known as the Lace Market . |
| 7 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 8 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 9 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 10 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 11 | Slowly we discovered this amazing cliff garden built in the nineteenth century in the style of marie antoinette at Waddesdon . |