Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the eighteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 2 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 3 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 5 | Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |
| 7 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 8 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 10 | The opposing attitude was perhaps best expressed by the great French naturalist , the Comte de Buffon , back in the eighteenth century . |