Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | On about the eighteenth floor , I hear the elevator doors open and voices cursing in Polish above . |
| 2 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 3 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 4 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 5 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The later development of the hierarchy , a development which continued down to the eighteenth century , was essentially no more than an elaboration of the basic principles set out in the Kanunname . |
| 7 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 8 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 9 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Sir George , ‘ that up to the eighteenth century the major industry in this part of the world was rabbit-warrening ? |
| 11 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 12 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |
| 13 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |
| 14 | Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 17 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 18 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 19 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |
| 20 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 21 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 23 | The opposing attitude was perhaps best expressed by the great French naturalist , the Comte de Buffon , back in the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 25 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 26 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 27 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Guinness has a long standing tradition of community involvement dating back to the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated |
| 30 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |