Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the 18th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 2 | Modern linguistic genealogy began in the 18th century , with Sir William Jones 's comparative studies of Sanskrit , Greek and Latin , which revealed the Indo-European family of languages . |
| 3 | They are an American religious sect , a Quaker splinter group started in the 18th century . |
| 4 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 5 | There are many pictures and engravings of the church dating from the 18th century . |