Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 2 | The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Further , because raw material imports rose through the eighteenth century while those of manufactured goods fell , there was an even more marked increase in volume than in value . |
| 5 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 6 | Thus when population and prices rose in the eighteenth century the tenant foreros sublet at great profits to themselves since their payments to the foristas had long ceased to represent an economic rent . |
| 7 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 8 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 9 | Beside the church is Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti , a sixteenth-century building , substantially remodelled in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | It is a black weatherboarded post mill and dates partly from around 1635 , although it was rebuilt in the eighteenth century after gale damage . |
| 11 | The exterior of the church is now largely Baroque , rebuilt in the eighteenth century , but the interior remains Romanesque on pilgrimage church lines . |
| 12 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The final stage of the programme will conclude with the opening in 1994 of around fifty more rooms in the north wing , devoted to the eighteenth , nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 15 | Reverting to the eighteenth century , in December 1783 , King George III selected William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister when he was only twenty-four years of age , and he remained in office throughout the troublesome years of the French Revolution which lasted from 1787 to 1799 . |
| 16 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 17 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 18 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 19 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |
| 20 | Slater and Gearing ( 1988 ) give the following quotation from Samuel Johnson , written in the eighteenth century , to illustrate their argument that we are too ready to ascribe the label demented to older people . |
| 21 | On the black walls of the tomb chamber were scraps of graffiti written in the eighteenth dynasty , a thousand years after the pyramid was built . |
| 22 | erm Gibbon 's written in the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | The nearby red Hereford was often fully finchbacked in the eighteenth century and so was the old Castlemartin of Pembrokeshire , later incorporated into the Welsh Black . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Lowther was interested not merely in profits , but also in ways of solving some of the immense technological difficulties confronting coalmining in the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |