Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the eighteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The lower parts of the walls were restored in the eighteenth century and represent biblical scenes . |
| 4 | Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot . |
| 5 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 6 | Abortion was another ; abortifacients , some of them potentially effective like ergot and savin , were advertised from the eighteenth century onwards in journals and handbills ( Potts , Diggory , and Peel 1977 ) . |
| 7 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |
| 8 | Altogether twenty-five provincial hospitals were established in the eighteenth century , usually by individual benevolence , as in John Radcliffe 's Oxford Infirmary of 1770 , and several more in London to join the medieval foundations of Bart 's and St. Thomas 's and the specialist Bethlem and Bridewell . |
| 9 | The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The present guest house was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Cirrhosis of the liver was recognized in the eighteenth century as a consequence of too much drinking . |
| 12 | ( viii ) " If that was painted in the eighteenth century , I 'm a Dutchman . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is a black weatherboarded post mill and dates partly from around 1635 , although it was rebuilt in the eighteenth century after gale damage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At any rate , this line of thought was explored in the eighteenth century , notably by David Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature ( first published in 1739 ) and has come to be termed empiricism . |
| 20 | The Cheddleton Flint Mill was established in the eighteenth century to supply the Potteries ( see Stoke-on-Trent ) with one of their raw materials , crushed flint . |