Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 3 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |
| 4 | It was developed in the eighteenth century by writers like Hume , Mandeville and Smith and applied by Darwin in the field of biology in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 6 | It is a black weatherboarded post mill and dates partly from around 1635 , although it was rebuilt in the eighteenth century after gale damage . |