Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the rigidity of the traditional line tactics which dominated most European battlefields in the eighteenth century had been shaken , with important results for the future . |
| 2 | Books are at the heart of long-lived auction businesses : Sotheby 's started with books in the eighteenth century , and the first founders of Christie 's also auctioned off famous libraries such as that of Dr Johnson in 1785 . |
| 3 | Books in the eighteenth century , and in the first quarter of the nineteenth , were little illustrated and were expensive . |
| 4 | The most desirable form of employment for many Scots in the eighteenth century was that provided by the East India Company , and a politician with access to this commodity was normally a man of strong interest in his region . |
| 5 | The Royal Navy became a popular career for Scots in the eighteenth century , from about the period of the American Revolution onwards , and it was a particularly apt choice for a gentleman of small means for it was a less expensive profession than that of an army officer . |
| 6 | Social minded reformers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries collated statistics which pointed to the influence of lack of sanitation and poor living conditions on a host of diseases such as diphtheria , scurvy , smallpox , and TB , little aware that later generations would dignify their efforts as alternative medicine . |
| 7 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 8 | It is at least possible that workers ' combinations operated in more propitious circumstances in the eighteenth century than they did in the early nineteenth . |
| 9 | If this social ascendancy depended on land it was reinforced by the widespread rebuilding of country seats in the eighteenth century and the reordering of the ornamental parks which surrounded them ; the symmetrical English formality of the grander Tudor houses and gardens gave way to a new Italianate classicism which combined with an image of the countryside often quite distinct from the comparative agricultural disorder which remained outside the pales of their civilised owners . |
| 10 | Deficiency occurred during prolonged sailing voyages in the eighteenth century , when lack of fresh fruit and vegetables produced the condition scurvy . |
| 11 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | One of the greatest fascinations of provincial printing in Britain is the diversity of localities where presses were set up , often , for example , along the line of canals , where labour was cheap and plentiful … another fascination being that this is a relatively unresearched area , its local beginnings in the eighteenth century often more obscure than the highly recorded beginnings of early printing . |
| 13 | From small beginnings in the eighteenth century it prospered in the depression after 1814 . |
| 14 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 15 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 16 | The story of the wetlands in the eighteenth century is one of gradual development of new technologies , culminating at the end of the century in the discovery of steam as an even more efficient pumping force than windmills . |
| 17 | Such were the difficulties facing collectors and transporters of plants in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | ‘ Miracula naturae ’ , they called sun dew plants in the eighteenth century , and miracles of nature they certainly are . |
| 19 | Although some efforts had been made to study the world-wide distribution of plants in the eighteenth century ( chapter 5 ) , the real founder of botanical geography was Alexander von Humboldt . |
| 20 | Repeated European hostilities in the eighteenth century reinforced the county 's particular vulnerability ; with the revival of local militias after 1758 , the aristocracy and gentry were expected to serve as officers . |
| 21 | Alongside Ashburnham and Pelham there stood other great Sussex families in the eighteenth century , particularly the Dukes of Richmond at Goodwood and the Earls of Egremont at Petworth . |
| 22 | This is illustrated by the fact that there is little natural forest left in western Europe as a whole and that forest resources were much prized by colonial powers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see section 4.4.2 in relation to North America ) . |
| 23 | Coley argues that writers in the eighteenth century form a class which is generally dependent on another higher class for economic support . |
| 24 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 25 | Despite Hutton-le-Hole 's well-deserved reputation as one of the most picturesque villages of North Yorkshire , its origins are industrial , since it was built largely by the Quaker owners of local iron mines in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Huguenot refugees from France settled here in what became one of London 's ghettoes in the eighteenth century , and brought their weaving skills with them . |
| 28 | Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . |
| 29 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 30 | For instance , one example will concern monarchical attitudes in the eighteenth century . |