Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the eighteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 2 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 3 | [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ] |
| 4 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |
| 5 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 6 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 7 | It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history . |