Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the eighteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 2 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 3 | Beside the church is Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti , a sixteenth-century building , substantially remodelled in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | It is a black weatherboarded post mill and dates partly from around 1635 , although it was rebuilt in the eighteenth century after gale damage . |
| 5 | The exterior of the church is now largely Baroque , rebuilt in the eighteenth century , but the interior remains Romanesque on pilgrimage church lines . |
| 6 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 7 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |
| 8 | Slater and Gearing ( 1988 ) give the following quotation from Samuel Johnson , written in the eighteenth century , to illustrate their argument that we are too ready to ascribe the label demented to older people . |
| 9 | erm Gibbon 's written in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The nearby red Hereford was often fully finchbacked in the eighteenth century and so was the old Castlemartin of Pembrokeshire , later incorporated into the Welsh Black . |
| 11 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 12 | This unique industrial museum at the south-western edge of Sheffield was formerly a scythe works , built in the eighteenth century and comprising stone-built mill and ancillary buildings , manager 's house and workmen 's cottages . |
| 13 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 14 | Sea defences : To reinforce the shorelines of the coastal strips separating the Lagoon from the Adriatic ( including reconstruction of the sea walls or murazzi built in the eighteenth century by the Venetian Republic along the seaward edge of the Lido and the island of Pellestrina and badly damaged by heavy seas in 1966 ) . |
| 15 | It comprised 118 pictures , with paintings by Claude , Poussin , Veronese , Van Dyck , Rubens , Salvator Rosa , Nicolaes Berchem , and a group of ten pictures by Adriaen van der Werff , a contemporary Dutch classicist painter much admired in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | The increasing importance of the diplomatic network which bound together the States of Europe was reflected in the eighteenth century in the development in most countries of central institutions for the direction of foreign policy . |
| 18 | It was quite a fine working model used in the eighteenth century by Sir Henry — a great-great-grandfather of the present Sir Henry . |
| 19 | The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | The present guest house was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | ( viii ) " If that was painted in the eighteenth century , I 'm a Dutchman . " |
| 23 | Origen first launched the theme , developed in the eighteenth century by Joseph Butler and Isaac Newton , that revelation is to be understood on the analogy of nature . |
| 24 | It was developed in the eighteenth century by writers like Hume , Mandeville and Smith and applied by Darwin in the field of biology in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Cirrhosis of the liver was recognized in the eighteenth century as a consequence of too much drinking . |
| 26 | Toll bridges , roads and canals were privately provided in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 28 | One project looks at the diagrammatic system which Euler , the great German mathematician , invented in the eighteenth century to teach a German Princess syllogisms , and which is still the basis of much teaching of elementary logic and mathematics . |
| 29 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |
| 30 | 1st century BC , and extensively restored in the eighteenth century . |