Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] . |
| 2 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 3 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 4 | Further , because raw material imports rose through the eighteenth century while those of manufactured goods fell , there was an even more marked increase in volume than in value . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the colonization , settlement and economic exploitation of the Siberian mainland continued throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , binding the territory ever more closely to metropolitan Russia and reflecting , contributing to or suffering from every stage of the nation 's overall historical development . |
| 6 | As we received the Minutes of the Personnel Meeting held on the eighteenth of October , nineteen ninety-three . |
| 7 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 8 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |
| 9 | Cooke notes that this equation of incorporation with public service continued into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , with the general theory of corporate form still dominated by ‘ the concept of the corporation as a public body , an institution created by specific act of Parliament or the Crown for purposes approved as being in the national interest ’ . |
| 10 | Thus when population and prices rose in the eighteenth century the tenant foreros sublet at great profits to themselves since their payments to the foristas had long ceased to represent an economic rent . |
| 11 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |
| 12 | Individually , the Russian nobleman continued into the eighteenth century to enjoy much less security under the law than his Western counterpart . |
| 13 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 14 | His arguments for the existence of God developed the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ of Anselm into the form which Kant criticised in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 16 | As Dr Berg has put it : " Certainly the home market grew in the eighteenth century , but its expansion was based on changing social relations and not on a national trend of rising living standards . " |