Example sentences of "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 . |