Example sentences of "built [prep] the [num ord] century [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 2 | The house is a large Elizabethan revival mansion built in the 19th century with 152 acres of grounds including river frontage along the entire southern side . |
| 3 | Egerton Grey was built in the 19th century as a rectory and , thanks to the Pitkins ' assiduous antique collecting , it retains the appearance of a Victorian private house . |
| 4 | This typical Pennine longhouse with thick stone walls , Viking timbers and mullioned windows was built in the 17th century in a style originated by the Norsemen . |
| 5 | Though Carcassonne is more picturesque , Aigues Mortes , built in the thirteenth century at the mouth of the river Rhône near Montpellier , retains much more of its original work . |
| 6 | Turku Castle was built in the thirteenth century in a strategic position on the harbour . |
| 7 | No doubt the original buildings were of timber but the first stone church was built in the 12th century with an apse at the east covering the site of the saint 's grave . |
| 8 | The truth of the matter is that the bridge was built in the mid-18th century by James Essex to a design by W. Etheridge , an undergraduate . |
| 9 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 10 | Bothwell Castle was built in the 13th century by Walter of Moray , a descendant of Freskin , Lord of Duffus . |
| 11 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 12 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 13 | Slowly we discovered this amazing cliff garden built in the nineteenth century in the style of marie antoinette at Waddesdon . |
| 14 | situated to the north of Pall Mall near St James 's Palace , central London , and built in the seventeenth century on the site of the old St James 's Fields . |
| 15 | From here there is a good view of the fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição which was built in the seventeenth century on the Loo Rock to protect ships in the harbour . |
| 16 | It has very interesting old cloisters built in the fifteenth century by order of Zarco 's son , João Gonçalves da Cãmara . |
| 17 | In the middle , surrounded by a wide moat still full of water , was the Rocca Sanvitale , an imposing brick castle originally built in the fifteenth century by the Sanvitale , one of the most illustrious and ancient families in Italy . |
| 18 | Sea defences : To reinforce the shorelines of the coastal strips separating the Lagoon from the Adriatic ( including reconstruction of the sea walls or murazzi built in the eighteenth century by the Venetian Republic along the seaward edge of the Lido and the island of Pellestrina and badly damaged by heavy seas in 1966 ) . |
| 19 | Known as the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ , some of the many private royal residences in the area include Gatcombe Park , built in the 18th century for a wealthy clothing manufacturer , and now the home of Princess Anne and her family . |
| 20 | Built in the eighth century by an unknown Shivite sect , they honour the elephant god Ganeesh — the Hindu patron of , amongst other things , partying , wisdom and jovial abundance . |