Example sentences of "during [art] eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheridan and Goldsmith continued to write comedies of manners during the eighteenth century ‘ with their famous plays The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer , and this tradition finds its most successful twentieth-century exponents in Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham ; Private Lives and The Circle are frequently revived by present day repertory companies . |
| 2 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 3 | Those that remain in villages are the survivors of a larger number of such groupings which were much reduced by the policy of enclosing open fields which was pursued during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 4 | During the eighteenth century , corn-milling had to keep pace with the growth of population and industry . |
| 5 | Horse-drawn and water-borne transport became important with the expansion of trade during the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | During the eighteenth century they became thinner and thinner , until in the Regency period they were often only half an inch thick . |
| 8 | It fell into intellectual decay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , from which it was rescued by its famous rector , Miguel de Unamuno . |
| 9 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 10 | During the eighteenth century the second and third Dukes of Richmond planted many trees at Goodwood , their country estate near Chichester in Sussex . |
| 11 | His garden became the pivot of plant exchange between America and Europe during the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The wars with France and Spain during the eighteenth century stretched over many years and disrupted plant exchange as did the American War of Independence in 1775 . |
| 13 | References by Miller 's contemporaries to his Gardeners Dictionary already mentioned have shown how widely it was used and appreciated both in Britain and abroad during the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | During the Eighteenth century , the Barker family sold Grove House to Viscount of Boston , the Earl of Grantham . |
| 15 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |
| 16 | During the eighteenth century the population of Britain as a whole doubled and politicians and farmers began to worry about how to feed the people . |
| 17 | During the eighteenth century superior local cattle known as Teeswaters ( in the north east of England around Darlington ) and Durhams were of good repute for their conformation and milking ability and were being systematically improved by various notable cattlemen . |
| 18 | During the eighteenth century imported black-and-whites from Jutland became the foundation of the British Friesian , which continued to develop with the help of imports from the Netherlands at intervals and also imports from South Africa ( 1922 ) and Canada ( 1946 onwards ) . |
| 19 | However , during the eighteenth century it came into competition with the Longhorns and Shorthorns and by 1790 very few pure Gloucester herds remained . |
| 20 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 21 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 22 | It is similar in type to the Simmental , though more elegantly built and the coat colour bright red rather than yellowish tan , and it shares the same origins in the old Bernese brought in by Mennonites during the eighteenth century ( see Alpine section ) . |
| 23 | During the eighteenth century this duty devolved on their deputies , the Sixty Clerks , and by around 1800 suitors were employing their own solicitors . |
| 24 | The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it . |
| 25 | It was during the eighteenth century that madeira wine as it is known today came into being . |
| 26 | During the eighteenth century Madeira 's importance grew as a port-of-call for ships en route for the Americas and the East , and the market for wine increased . |
| 27 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 28 | During the eighteenth century the sport increasingly became a recreation of the working classes . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 30 | From surviving pattern books , trade cards , bill headings , contemporary written accounts and livery company admission lists we learn that Southwark and Whitechapel were the two main areas in London accommodating funeral furnishing houses during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |