Example sentences of "built [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 2 | Some of these mills were fairly small but a number , mainly built during the 19th century , were of considerable size . |
| 3 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 4 | This was yet another corn mill , probably built during the 16th century , later turned over to fulling and subsequently enlarged to form a substantial cloth mill . |
| 5 | Built during the seventeenth century , our new home was reputed to have been the birthplace of one of Northumberland 's most famous sons : Nicholas Ridley , Bishop of London . |
| 6 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |
| 7 | The oldest layout at Pompeii is the Stabian Baths , built in the second century B.C. and remodelled later . |
| 8 | The house is a large Elizabethan revival mansion built in the 19th century with 152 acres of grounds including river frontage along the entire southern side . |
| 9 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 10 | Egerton Grey was built in the 19th century as a rectory and , thanks to the Pitkins ' assiduous antique collecting , it retains the appearance of a Victorian private house . |
| 11 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 12 | This typical Pennine longhouse with thick stone walls , Viking timbers and mullioned windows was built in the 17th century in a style originated by the Norsemen . |
| 13 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 14 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 15 | It was built in the seventh century and after several restorations was finally reconstructed in 1008 . |
| 16 | Lower Thames Street , east London ; originally built in the thirteenth century , destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 , and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren with a square tower crowned by a cupola and a short spire . |
| 17 | The castle , silhouetted against the sky , was first built in the thirteenth century , but was destroyed in 1350 in one of the local quarrels of the period . |
| 18 | In northern and central France several outstanding cathedrals were built in the thirteenth century . |
| 19 | Though Carcassonne is more picturesque , Aigues Mortes , built in the thirteenth century at the mouth of the river Rhône near Montpellier , retains much more of its original work . |
| 20 | Turku Castle was built in the thirteenth century in a strategic position on the harbour . |
| 21 | Near to Marske you will find Upleatham Church , built in the 12th Century . |
| 22 | It was built in the 12th century ( 1150 ) . |
| 23 | No doubt the original buildings were of timber but the first stone church was built in the 12th century with an apse at the east covering the site of the saint 's grave . |
| 24 | The truth of the matter is that the bridge was built in the mid-18th century by James Essex to a design by W. Etheridge , an undergraduate . |
| 25 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 26 | The village can only be described as picturesque , the core built in the 13th century has narrow and sometimes steep and winding cobblestone alleys . |
| 27 | Framlingham Castle , built in the 13th century , has 13 towers linked by a continuous wall . |
| 28 | The church , which was built in the 13th century , stands isolated in a field at the north end of the village , and is dedicated to St Margaret . |
| 29 | There is beautiful scenery to be seen travelling to Malbork , a town on the eastern arm of the Vistula where there is a famous red brick Gothic castle , built in the 13th Century . |
| 30 | Bothwell Castle was built in the 13th century by Walter of Moray , a descendant of Freskin , Lord of Duffus . |