Example sentences of "date [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century . |
| 2 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 3 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
| 4 | The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most may therefore date from the 2nd century . |
| 7 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 8 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 9 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 10 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 11 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 12 | At Ávila the walls are of granite and there are 86 towers and 10 gate-ways ( 310 ) all dating from the eleventh century . |
| 13 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 14 | Devon Papers , dating from the nineteenth century , of the geologist William Buckland and the naturalist Frank Buckland . |
| 15 | Even today , most convicts are sentenced to ‘ rigorous ’ imprisonment , and , although some revisions are currently being made , the gaols in most states are run according to manuals dating from the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The church of All Saints stands in a hollow and is of great historic interest , dating from the 12th century . |
| 17 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |
| 18 | Dating from the 12th century , this personally run hotel is the oldest moated manor house in England . |
| 19 | Europe 's oldest remaining glass cone , dating from the mid-eighteenth century , stands here where William Fenney started his own glass works in 1740 after experience as a works manager on the other side of Sheffield . |
| 20 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 21 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 22 | A drawing attributed to the Persian artist Dust Muhammad , dating from the mid-sixteenth century and depicting the first scene from the tale of ‘ Haftvad and the Worm ’ , bears the estimate of £25–35,000 ( $45–60,000 ) . |
| 23 | At Vergina in 1977 the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos , excavating the royal Macedonian graves of the fourth century BC at Vergina , found a bronze tripod dating from the mid-fifth century . |
| 24 | Gnoll Park — A designated Historical Landscape Garden dating from the 17th Century with a reservoir , cascades , lakes and playgrounds , together with many other landscape features . |
| 25 | Some examples of these sophisticated Court items , dating from the 17th century , are in existence today , but by the early 19th century , Caucasian weaving had completed the transition to the " folk art " tradition that is universally regarded as the epitome of Caucasian village textile art . |
| 26 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 27 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 28 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 29 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 30 | The best known of the three bore the official name , dating from the 16th century , of Joueurs de violons , hautbois , saqueboutes et cornets , but was informally known as the 12 Grands hautbois du roi ; also attached to the Ecurie ( the king 's stables ) were the six Hautbois et musettes de Poitou , the ensemble that seems to have provided the winds for Les nopces de village . |