Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] [coord] nineteenth " in BNC.

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1 But the most important aspect of the project has been the excavation of domestic buildings built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries .
2 Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
3 The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses .
4 At the same time , however , the formation of these new nations resembled in other important respects the creation of nation states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and even earlier .
5 Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks .
6 Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success .
7 These are questions that were not asked during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century nation-building experiences in Europe and the United States .
8 The removal of whole communities for the creation of parks began in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and hundreds , if not thousands , of instances can be cited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
9 The towns and cities that particularly grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were those which were relatively free of controls by medieval guilds .
10 Meanwhile , the colonization , settlement and economic exploitation of the Siberian mainland continued throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , binding the territory ever more closely to metropolitan Russia and reflecting , contributing to or suffering from every stage of the nation 's overall historical development .
11 This system was well developed by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , with complex regulations to control the use of the water .
12 The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times .
13 The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) .
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