Example sentences of "[coord] [art] eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true danger to English today , according to Mr Francis , is not a decline in standards from some mythical golden age in the 1930s or the eighteenth century , but that the National Curriculum will stifle imagination , and mark a return to over-emphasis on rigid expository forms . |
| 2 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 3 | The responsibility which the aristocracy took most seriously was that of political life , and the eighteenth century saw the virtual elimination of the fierce independence shown by Stuart gentry and townsmen , particularly in East Sussex . |
| 4 | In the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Wainfleet had its fair share of smuggling activity . |
| 5 | Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 . |
| 6 | By the end of the seventeenth century the danger had receded , and the eighteenth century saw steady economic progress in an atmosphere of stability and calm . |
| 7 | Living , by agreement with the city of Geneva , in Voltaire 's former house , Les Délices , he founded the Institut et Musée Voltaire there ( 1952 ) , while editing that writer 's correspondence ( 107 volumes , 1953–65 ) as well as the equally multi-volume series , Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century . |
| 8 | Laxton , in Nottinghamshire , is the only surviving example of the open field farming system which was common to much of Midland England between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | The department has particular strengths in the Celtic element in Scottish history , the Highlands , the sixteenth century , the Reformation , urban history and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |