Example sentences of "built [prep] the [num ord] century [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 2 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 3 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 4 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 5 | It was built in the seventh century and after several restorations was finally reconstructed in 1008 . |
| 6 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 7 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 8 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |
| 9 | It was built in the fourteenth century and shows Italian influence , being designed by craftsmen from Kotor ( Cattaro ) on the coast south of Dubrovnik where there is further Byzantine work . |
| 10 | The part of this street above the church is known as the Rue de la Citadelle , because up to the right is the large classical citadel , built in the seventeenth century and reshaped soon after , along with the town walls , by the inescapable Vauban , whose job it was to make south-west France for ever safe from incursions from across the mountains . |
| 11 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 12 | It was built in the fifteenth century and the paintings date from c. 1520 ; it is a very fine example indeed . |
| 13 | This unique industrial museum at the south-western edge of Sheffield was formerly a scythe works , built in the eighteenth century and comprising stone-built mill and ancillary buildings , manager 's house and workmen 's cottages . |
| 14 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |