Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] from the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 2 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 3 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 4 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 5 | The windmill in full working order on the heath is a post mill of 1665 , the earliest mill still operable , though its machinery dates mainly from the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | There is decreased ability to stay away from the first use in any day of the substance or process of addiction . |
| 7 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Mass movement of women into the work-force dates only from the Second World War — especially from 1960 — and the improvement of women 's wage rates relative to men 's happened only since 1970 . |