Example sentences of "date [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 2 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 3 | Comprises three limestone caves ( one of which is the longest in Britain ) all of which illustrate how they served as homes for both humans and animals : including the Bone cave , rich in archaeological evidence with details of the Flintsone-like inhabitants dating back to the Bronze Age . |
| 4 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 5 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 6 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 7 | A strategy based on specialisation and tight cost controls dating back to the rescue period has provided the basis for the turnaround under chief executive Ron Garrick . |
| 8 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 9 | A : Classique Tours of Paisley ( 041 889 4050 ) runs fascinating tours taking in the Hebridean Islands , Royal Deeside or the Borders , using comfortable , small , classic buses , many dating back to the 1950s and 60s . |
| 10 | Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves , which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period . |
| 11 | To the left of the doorway is the first postbox in Milan , dating back to the Napoleonic era . |
| 12 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |
| 13 | Beyond Roland are the earliest of the Malá Strana watermills , dating back to the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 15 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 16 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , at Newbury , our archaeologists have worked with the Trust for Wessex Archaeology and unearthed the remains of flint tools from a site dating back to the Middle Stone Age . |
| 18 | Beneath Denmark Street , west of the city centre , are extensive cellars , dating back to the thirteenth century and once part of an Augustinian monastery . |
| 19 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 20 | Science and The Church are caught in a bloody feud dating back to the 14th century . |
| 21 | 1868 ) , tavern in Snow Hill , Holborn , east London , dating back to the twelfth century . |
| 22 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 23 | ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history . |
| 24 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 25 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 26 | HAMPSHIRE County Council planners are awaiting the results of a major archaeological research project which should provide valuable new information on sites , dating back to the Stone Age , located in gravel deposits throughout the area . |
| 27 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The Pinot Meunier is a variant of the Pinot Noir , dating back to the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | The old town ( zono velha ) of Funchal , which is at the far ( eastern ) end of Avenida das Comunidades Madeirenses ( the sea-front road ) past the power station , is the oldest part of Funchal , dating back to the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | They represented a common English custom dating back to the Middle Ages and were first mentioned in Stamford in 1486 . |