Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot .
3 The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The lower parts of the walls were restored in the eighteenth century and represent biblical scenes .
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