Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 18th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | As communications improved during the 18th century , so the number of coaching inns or pubs situated at turnpikes increased . |
| 2 | During the 18th century , there were at least fourteen mills on the Painswick Stream and its tributaries , rising to thirty by the first part of the 19th century . |
| 3 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |
| 4 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 5 | During the 18th century it was leased to Walter Kyte , the actual miller being Thomas Kyte , possibly a son . |
| 6 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 7 | During the 18th century there had been a slavish adherence to Isaac Newton 's methods and notation long after Continental mathematicians had developed more efficient techniques . |
| 8 | During the 18th Century Turnpike Trusts were set up , partly to build new roads , but mainly to maintain old ones , many of which were poorly surfaced and too badly rutted to carry the increasing traffic . |
| 9 | During the 18th century it was bought by a stone-merchant , John Chapman , who built the mansion opposite the later quay . |
| 10 | During the 18th century thousands of tons of stone were won from Tilly Whim and cliffs further west , especially for harbours and fortifications . |
| 11 | The shell design was very popular during the 18th century . |
| 12 | At their north-westerly end was a shaft put down by the Macclesfield Copper Company during the 18th Century . |
| 13 | In mestizo architectural decoration of the 18th century , the archangel brandishing the flaming sword had a prominent place ( particularly fine examples are in the Cathedral of Puno and San Lorenzo , in Potosi ) ; and in the traditional diablada boliviana ( Bolivian devil play ) , a religious drama , the Archangel Michael defeats [ … ] the Devil of the Seven Masks . |
| 14 | The effect was completed by the addition of elaborate and pretty Gothick windows around the end of the 18th century . |
| 15 | To think that not less than 30 years ago we still had a fiver worthy of the 18th century and felt no need to supplement the revenue by the constant issuing of new postage stamps . |
| 16 | When Pompeii was found more than 1,600 years after the eruption — almost by accident , since no one knew where it was — it created the biggest stir of the 18th century . |
| 17 | Potatoes had become the staple food around the middle of the 18th century ( relegating the traditional oatmeal to second place ) , and the results of the outbreak of potato blight in 1846 were only slightly less terrible than those of the much better-known one in Ireland the year before . |
| 18 | In the closing years of the 18th century the old town suffered a virtual invasion of body-snatchers . |
| 19 | A vast inshore field of Scottish genius was struck in the latter part of the 18th century . |
| 20 | By the end of the 18th century it was in the hands of John Sutton . |
| 21 | By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates . |
| 22 | Although the Shurmur family retained ownership , in 1706 it was leased to Edward Yeate , who was later replaced by his son , still engaged in cloth manufacture in the latter half of the 18th century . |
| 23 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 24 | Parish Mill is thought to have been built around the beginning of the 18th century and , later in its life , formed part of the property of The Charity Trustees of Longhope . |
| 25 | By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons . |
| 26 | Boddington originally had two mills belonging to the Manor , although the ( Upper ) one had disappeared by the start of the 18th century . |
| 27 | There are also references to a mill at nearby Lower Swell but this does not survive , having gone during the latter half of the 18th century . |
| 28 | Irish Studies : Contemporary Irish literature ; Application of linguistic science to contemporary Irish ; Old Irish , classical Irish and Irish literature of the 18th century — with particular reference to Ulster writers ; Irish folklore ; Syntactic errors of learners of Irish as a second language . |
| 29 | From the middle of the 18th century writers and then artists had visited the ‘ Lakes ’ in a steadily increasing stream and jointly they slowly helped to transform public opinion from one of ‘ Salvatorian ’ horror , described by the earlier visitors , to a passionate romantic appreciation . |
| 30 | The touring painters , however , showed little sympathy towards the quiet intimacy of the valleys and lakes which became so evident in the literature at the end of the 18th century . |