Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the 18th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 2 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 3 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 4 | The tradition of St Melangell was never forgotten and the little room at the east end , despite being rebuilt in the 18th century , has always been known as Cell-y-bedd ( the room of the grave ) . |
| 5 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 6 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 7 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 8 | Known as the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ , some of the many private royal residences in the area include Gatcombe Park , built in the 18th century for a wealthy clothing manufacturer , and now the home of Princess Anne and her family . |
| 9 | Built in the 18th century , this building was once the residence of Prince Carrega Bertolini . |
| 10 | The parish church of St James , dating from the 18th century , dominates the green and has many associations with the lords of the manor , the Creyke family . |
| 11 | The priceless treasure , dating from the 18th century , vanished in 1945 . |
| 12 | There are many pictures and engravings of the church dating from the 18th century . |
| 13 | South Cave is divided into two distinct parts , separated since the 18th century by the grounds of the Barnard family house , now known as Cave Castle Golf Hotel . |
| 14 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 15 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 16 | Several hundred have been produced since the 18th century explorers brought more foreign languages into contact — and friction . |
| 17 | It was the plentiful supply of ‘ fixed air ’ ( carbon dioxide was so called in the 18th century ) above the vats that held his attention . |
| 18 | Modern linguistic genealogy began in the 18th century , with Sir William Jones 's comparative studies of Sanskrit , Greek and Latin , which revealed the Indo-European family of languages . |
| 19 | Their revolutions based on the 18th century economics of Jean-Baptiste Say and Adam Smith , paved the way for the most profligate age since the 1920s . |
| 20 | A borehole drilled by hand through the mud and silt filling a former loch basin — drained in the 18th century — yielded a ‘ core ’ of material which can be studied in the laboratory . |
| 21 | It had to be rediscovered in the 18th century . |
| 22 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 23 | Until this time , any bidder may retract his bid , and this was settled in the 18th century case of Payne v Cave ( 1789 ) 3 TR 148 . |
| 24 | They are an American religious sect , a Quaker splinter group started in the 18th century . |
| 25 | In the old town , streets barely altered since the 18th century circle the university . |
| 26 | Meanwhile inside the court , 9 travellers were charged under the 18th century law of causing a public nuisance . |
| 27 | The optimistic view of mankind that Peto favoured was generated in the 18th Century by the French philosophers of Enlightenment . |
| 28 | Moreover , when Lully 's operas were revived in the 18th century , after the orchestral string body had been reduced from five parts-to four , the quinte part was , once again , simply omitted . |
| 29 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 30 | The fine 14th century carved screen had been partly mutilated in the 18th century . |