Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | The present guest house was erected in the eighteenth century . |