Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] 18th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEFT : Bonds Mill was originally built in the early 18th century although many of the buildings date from the 1887 rebuilding . |
| 2 | Firstly , on the opposite bank , is Oby Mill , built in the mid 18th century . |
| 3 | Oby Mill , built in the mid 18th century |
| 4 | Built in local ironstone with its rich orangey colour this listed building made in the shape of an octagonal lantern was built in the late 18th Century as a lodge to Fawsley Hall . |
| 5 | The castle was built in the late 18th century then extensively restored and altered in 1872–1875 . |
| 6 | Nearby Ickworth House , built in the late 18th century , has fine state rooms and a deer park and formal gardens . |
| 7 | This charcoal-burning blast furnace , dating from the mid 18th century , is largely intact and now fully conserved . |
| 8 | Torr House is an attractive granite building , dating from the early 18th century , and was home , originally , to a woollen merchant . |
| 9 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 10 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
| 11 | Invented in the late 18th century , it made possible large schools with a wide range of age and ability , that could be run by a small complement of teachers . |
| 12 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 13 | Rug-making declined after the late 18th century , and only in the last 20 years has Egypt begun to re-establish itself as an important force . |
| 14 | Gradually the business declined , but the mid-1980s saw a dramatic change of use when it was substantially renovated and converted into a restaurant , care being taken to retain the two undershot water wheels and much of the machinery , some of which reputedly dates from the late 18th century . |
| 15 | item No 2 : is a candle snuffer of the type used with a candle dish and dates from the late 18th century . |
| 16 | Rampur was created in the late 18th century and encompassed an area of about 890 square miles , 150 miles north of New Delhi in the United Provinces ( now Uttar Pradesh ) . |
| 17 | Thomas Goldney III , in whose house and garden several generations of Bristol students have now lived , was described in the late 18th century as ‘ a very curious gentleman ’ . |