Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the early eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the old medieval naval base of Portsmouth the planned suburb of Portsea was added in the early eighteenth century to house the workers in the new and expanded dockyard . |
| 2 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |
| 3 | North-west of the village at Derwentcote are the remains of a cementation furnace dating from the early eighteenth century , a rare survival . |
| 4 | Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor . |
| 5 | In 1984 , a faculty to examine the St John vault for these items proved that it had been extensively reordered in the early eighteenth century when the decayed earlier coffins were cleared and placed in a charnel cistern within the vault . |
| 6 | Certainly the slave trade was expanding in the early eighteenth century ; more slaves were being bought in Africa than before , and the wars among Africans to provide captives to sell had more of a disturbing effect on the states of West Africa . |
| 7 | Next month , we shall look at some more regiments , the senior components of which were raised in the early eighteenth century . |
| 8 | There is a lead statue of a shepherd boy and his dog at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire which was almost certainly supplied by van Nost when the garden was being remade in the early eighteenth century . |
| 9 | A secretary inevitably had access to highly confidential information : as Pecquet wrote in the early eighteenth century , " silence , loyalty and secrecy should reign in every secretariat " . |
| 10 | Little Lough was created in the early eighteenth century by damming the stream that is the source of the River Wansbeck , and Great Lough was formed in 1850 , immediately upstream . |
| 11 | The eastern end was not fully established until the early eighteenth century , when the Turks were driven from Hungary , Transylvania and the Banat . |