Example sentences of "and [prep] the eighteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 3 | First , the winning of civil rights during and after the eighteenth century : in a number of important cases the courts developed the doctrine that the individual was free to do anything which was not made unlawful by a specific law ; and the corollary of this approach was that the state could not interfere with the civil and political liberties of its citizens ( in those days ‘ subjects ’ ) unless the government could persuade Parliament to pass legislation authorising the interference . |
| 4 | The coast at Shurton Bars shelves more gently to the sea than at many points farther west , and in the eighteenth century still provided a landing-place for infrequent trading vessels which brought coal from Wales for coastal lime-kilns and West Somerset hearths . |
| 5 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 6 | From the seventeenth century , there had been specialized instrument makers ; and in the eighteenth century James Watt was one , who turned his mind to bigger things . |
| 7 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 8 | Trade by water was easier ; the sugar colonies had a very saleable product close to the sea and as they concentrated more and more on sugar they imported their food , first from England , then from Ireland , and by the eighteenth century from New England and from the Carolinas . |
| 9 | Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control . |