Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] from the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 2 | This exciting find dates from the 2nd century . |
| 3 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |
| 4 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 5 | The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) . |
| 6 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 7 | Although this site is quite old , the present building dates from the 19th century . |
| 8 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 10 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 11 | At S. George , which was a small abbey founded in 840 , most of the present church dates from the ninth to tenth century with the ninth century crypt as the earliest part . |
| 12 | The present church dates from the 11th century , with many fine features , notably the brick tower at the west end , the porch and the pulpit . |
| 13 | Much of the present structure dates from the 19th century , the mill taking its name from Brimscombe Port , built close at hand by the Thames and Severn Canal Co . |
| 14 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 15 | The small timber-framed house dates from the 16th century . |
| 16 | This particular guitar comes from the first phase of the Les Paul Custom , the single-coil era of 1954 to 1957 . |
| 17 | FIG. 2 Two example displays from the first experiment . |
| 18 | The main building dates from the 19th century and two new wings have since been added . |
| 19 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |