Example sentences of "date [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The binomial has been applied by Don Johanson and Tim White to a group of fossils from Laetoli , Tanzania , dated about 3.6 million years , and from Hadar , Ethiopia , dated about the same age by some palaeontologists though recent evidence indicates an age nearer 3 million . |
| 2 | Several of the mare impacts have been dated from the radiometric ages of the welding of the surrounding brecchias to which these impacts probably gave rise . |
| 3 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 4 | The only modern-design vehicles , apart from the Scottish air-conditioned stock , were possibly the Class 310 electric multiple units radiating from Rugby , and even these dated from the mid 1960s . |
| 5 | In Zambia , the provision of hybrid maize seed , fertiliser and marketing services to small-scale farmers dated from the mid 1960s ; in Kenya the provision of such services was extended for the first time in the 1960s well beyond the Kikuyu . |
| 6 | But Joyce 's abortive service in the regiment dated from the following year , when he had left Ireland for good and when the Anglo-lrish Treaty was in force . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A third is archaeological context : very occasionally a coin or group of coins can be dated from the other objects in the same stratum , as revealed by excavation . |
| 9 | In both countries the movement away from the pure gospel of self-help to a demand for state action can be dated from the late 1840s . |
| 10 | Endowments dated from the earliest days of England 's Christian history and compulsory Church Rates were no longer being levied throughout the Kingdom . |
| 11 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 12 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
| 13 | A widespread reaction , however , can be dated from the 1880s . |
| 14 | The University dated from the opulent heyday of expansion and was now slightly grubby and tatty , mortared cracks grinning between the white oblongs under their urban plaque . |
| 15 | When a form is received it should be signed and dated in the Received by and Date spaces on the form provided . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The drawing was signed and dated in the bottom right-hand comer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 20 | Excursion Tickets were multi-coloured and must date from the early days of the Railway . |
| 21 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 22 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 23 | Most may therefore date from the 2nd century . |
| 24 | There are literally thousands of Latin words occurring in texts of interest to the local historian — and these may date from the sixth or seventh centuries down to the seventeenth . |
| 25 | Near the western end of the reservoir you can see a bronze age burial mound and a cup and ring marked boulder which may also date from the same period . |
| 26 | Although the complex is situated in unit one , its alignment relates to unit two , and thus the earthworks in their present form ( but not necessarily the house they enclose ) should date from the same period as unit two . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 29 | Beginning at the turn of the century , agreements between Iran and France created a French monopoly on excavations at Susiana , an intercultural trading centre dating from the first millennium to the late fourth century . |
| 30 | Todedo 's 168 pieces of Roman mould-blown glass , dating from the first to sixth centuries AD , constitute the world 's largest and finest collection of examples of this technique . |