Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 2 | Toll bridges , roads and canals were privately provided in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The latter was generally believed in the eighteenth century to be a Galloway variety or cross , looking exactly like the Scottish breed except in colour . |
| 5 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | This system was well developed by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , with complex regulations to control the use of the water . |