Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that remain in villages are the survivors of a larger number of such groupings which were much reduced by the policy of enclosing open fields which was pursued during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Beside the church is Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti , a sixteenth-century building , substantially remodelled in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | It is a black weatherboarded post mill and dates partly from around 1635 , although it was rebuilt in the eighteenth century after gale damage . |
| 6 | The exterior of the church is now largely Baroque , rebuilt in the eighteenth century , but the interior remains Romanesque on pilgrimage church lines . |
| 7 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 9 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 10 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |
| 11 | Slater and Gearing ( 1988 ) give the following quotation from Samuel Johnson , written in the eighteenth century , to illustrate their argument that we are too ready to ascribe the label demented to older people . |
| 12 | On the black walls of the tomb chamber were scraps of graffiti written in the eighteenth dynasty , a thousand years after the pyramid was built . |
| 13 | erm Gibbon 's written in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | The nearby red Hereford was often fully finchbacked in the eighteenth century and so was the old Castlemartin of Pembrokeshire , later incorporated into the Welsh Black . |
| 15 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 16 | This unique industrial museum at the south-western edge of Sheffield was formerly a scythe works , built in the eighteenth century and comprising stone-built mill and ancillary buildings , manager 's house and workmen 's cottages . |
| 17 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 18 | Sea defences : To reinforce the shorelines of the coastal strips separating the Lagoon from the Adriatic ( including reconstruction of the sea walls or murazzi built in the eighteenth century by the Venetian Republic along the seaward edge of the Lido and the island of Pellestrina and badly damaged by heavy seas in 1966 ) . |
| 19 | The language and phrasing of the Latin text are closely studied , in relationship to several English versions , made in the eighteenth , nineteenth and twentieth centuries , but with fullest reference to a translation by A.E . |
| 20 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | Buckmaster parked the Volvo in the underground garage , used the special key to open the executive elevator door , ascended to the eighteenth floor . |
| 22 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 24 | It comprised 118 pictures , with paintings by Claude , Poussin , Veronese , Van Dyck , Rubens , Salvator Rosa , Nicolaes Berchem , and a group of ten pictures by Adriaen van der Werff , a contemporary Dutch classicist painter much admired in the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | The increasing importance of the diplomatic network which bound together the States of Europe was reflected in the eighteenth century in the development in most countries of central institutions for the direction of foreign policy . |
| 27 | It was quite a fine working model used in the eighteenth century by Sir Henry — a great-great-grandfather of the present Sir Henry . |
| 28 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | The Reverend George R Wedgewood , later to be Vice-President of the Conference , lectured on the eighteenth century and the place of the Wesleys in it and the Reverend Mark Guy Pearse , colleague of Hugh Price Hughes of West London Mission , spoke on Cornwall . |
| 30 | Thomas Cromwell eventually purchased the manor , and installed a new kitchen with two huge chimneys which were no longer used by the eighteenth century . |