Example sentences of "[prep] the eighteenth [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In many ways it is transitional between the eighteenth century and the Regency : there is still the odd closet , a bedroom and dressing-room are still downstairs , and the house itself perches on its semi-basement . |
| 3 | The majority of these focused on the clash ( judged from their own knowledge of the world ) between the eighteenth century and the petrochemical refinery . |
| 4 | Edward Thompson maintains that for a variety of reasons traditional pursuits were strongly resilient through the eighteenth century and were weakened only by forces which developed in the nineteenth . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Azariah had made good in the West Indies , and his grandson , John Frederick , returned to England and Bettiscombe towards the middle of the eighteenth century and became MP for Bridport . |
| 6 | The squeezing and elongation of materials is a basic design expression , nowhere better explored than in Baroque architecture of the eighteenth century and , more recently , abstract expressionism of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The business grew from about the middle of the eighteenth century and became concentrated in and around Kendal , with seven mills grinding snuff ( which is powdered tobacco ) at one time . |
| 8 | At this village off the A40 south of Fishguard is the Tregwynt Woollen Mill , which dates from the middle of the eighteenth century and has been in continuous production of woollen yarns since then . |
| 9 | George Day Welsh came to Madeira at the end of the eighteenth century and married the important and rich Vicência Ludovina de Freitas , whose family were large landowners in the Madalena do Mar area . |
| 10 | In England during the period between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the Second World War there was an increase in goods and services per person of four-to six-fold at a time when population was increasing six-fold . |
| 11 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 12 | But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth . |
| 13 | The only really important nineteenth-century extension of European rule before 1880 had been the acquisition of a new African empire by France after the losses of the eighteenth century and the revolutionary wars . |
| 14 | First , there is the aristocratic theory which defines conservatism as ‘ the ideology of a specific and unique historical movement : the reaction of the feudal-aristocratic-agrarian classes to the French Revolution , liberalism , and to the rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first half of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 15 | Showell Styles balanced the junior tales about Septimus Quinn with a sequence of adult novels built round a middle-aged naval officer who , at thirty-three , had moved only from midshipman to the unsatisfactory rank of acting lieutenant because of intermittent periods of unemployment at the end of the eighteenth century and a sad lack of useful patronage . |
| 16 | The new factory system made earlier marriage easier by the end of the eighteenth century and larger family size correspondingly more common , although these trends were reversed by the early nineteenth century . |
| 17 | In the novels of the eighteenth century and Regency , the great houses of England occupy the foreground , while its cottages , when seen at all , are merely glimpsed as details in the scenery . |
| 18 | Prompted by this wish , Dorothea approaches her cottages from the inside , beginning with the plan ; but the enthusiasts of the eighteenth century and Regency began with the elevation , and often effectively ended there as well . |
| 19 | The canals of England are mainly the creation of the last forty years of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth , and they introduced a number of distinctive changes into the landscape . |
| 20 | As Foucault ( 1977 ) famously observed , the end of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century saw a massive shift from corporal to carceral punishment . |
| 21 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |
| 22 | The end of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth brought a time of confusion and revised Swiss administration in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , and in 1803 , St Gallen 's monastery was secularised along with others in Switzerland , the new canton of St Gallen was formed , and the city became its capital . |
| 23 | Wolf 's treatise on Homer laid the foundations at the end of the eighteenth century and a celebrated edition of Lucretius by Karl Lachmann represents the completion of the edifice in 1850 . |
| 24 | It would be less wise to attribute the continuing importance of the home market in the latter part of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth to a general improvement in real wages . |
| 25 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 26 | Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends . |
| 27 | Throughout the eighteenth century and into the Regency , houses were — to a modern eye — extremely bare ( Fig. 7a ) . |
| 28 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 29 | It dates from the eighteenth century and is built on three storeys , and , though no longer in commercial use , it is maintained as a working museum . |
| 30 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |