Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cirrhosis of the liver was recognized in the eighteenth century as a consequence of too much drinking . |
| 2 | The Cheddleton Flint Mill was established in the eighteenth century to supply the Potteries ( see Stoke-on-Trent ) with one of their raw materials , crushed flint . |
| 3 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 4 | Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot . |
| 5 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 7 | At any rate , this line of thought was explored in the eighteenth century , notably by David Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature ( first published in 1739 ) and has come to be termed empiricism . |
| 8 | The increasing importance of the diplomatic network which bound together the States of Europe was reflected in the eighteenth century in the development in most countries of central institutions for the direction of foreign policy . |
| 9 | The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Altogether twenty-five provincial hospitals were established in the eighteenth century , usually by individual benevolence , as in John Radcliffe 's Oxford Infirmary of 1770 , and several more in London to join the medieval foundations of Bart 's and St. Thomas 's and the specialist Bethlem and Bridewell . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The lower parts of the walls were restored in the eighteenth century and represent biblical scenes . |
| 13 | The present guest house was erected in the eighteenth century . |