Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.

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31 Individually , the Russian nobleman continued into the eighteenth century to enjoy much less security under the law than his Western counterpart .
32 Cooke notes that this equation of incorporation with public service continued into the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , with the general theory of corporate form still dominated by ‘ the concept of the corporation as a public body , an institution created by specific act of Parliament or the Crown for purposes approved as being in the national interest ’ .
33 If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ .
34 What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase .
35 The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack .
36 I waited by the eighteenth green with thousands of spectators to see the denouement , and my money was mentally on the dashing Swede .
37 His arguments for the existence of God developed the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ of Anselm into the form which Kant criticised in the eighteenth century .
38 As we received the Minutes of the Personnel Meeting held on the eighteenth of October , nineteen ninety-three .
39 The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] .
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