Example sentences of "date from [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watkins ' inclusion of churches as mark points is particularly controversial : these dated from Saxon times at the earliest , whereas leys were claimed to be prehistoric . |
| 2 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 3 | They are to be distinguished , therefore , from the green lanes that run for more considerable distances , which are portions of through-roads dating from prehistoric times . |
| 4 | There are many such names in Dutch and Flemish , dating from Napoleonic times . |
| 5 | For it was from a network of tunnels beneath the castle , dating from Napoleonic times , that Admiral Ramsay master-minded the evacuation from Dunkirk . |
| 6 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
| 7 | Three interesting features inside are the box pews , the semi-circular altar rail , and the stone lectern dating from Norman times . |
| 8 | There are many manuscripts dating from that time , and a few from the earlier period , starting 1140 . |
| 9 | The Museum of Leathercraft in Bridge Street houses a nationally important collection of leathergoods dating from Egyptian times up to the present day . |
| 10 | There are a number of castles in Belgium with work dating from Romanesque times . |
| 11 | I believe that when we shall have heard the testimony of Paul Alexandre and seen Modigliani 's magnificent drawings dating from this time , a truth much more beautiful than the legend will assert itself on its own . |
| 12 | Investigations in the area — part of the valley of the river Wolf , north-west of Dartmoor — have revealed evidence of human activity dating from neolithic times . |
| 13 | Two of Eva 's closest friends date from that time Ingrid Lindberg who is now head of the Salvation Army in Finland , and Miriam Vinti , who is a leader in her home territory , Italy . |
| 14 | Canids and felids also date from this time ( Savage , 1965 ) , but like hyaenids they do not become common until the middle Miocene . |
| 15 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 16 | It is thought the name means ‘ the enclosure of the family of Loca ’ and the settlement dates from Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 17 | Society of Jesus Archive ( London ) The Jesuit mission to England began in 1580 and some of the archive material dates from that time . |
| 18 | The surviving structure also dates from that time . |
| 19 | Drummonds Bank was set up by a Scot in the Scottish end of London ( the name Scotland Yard dates from mediaeval times when the kings of Scotland and their ambassadors would lodge there . |
| 20 | Here again the core of the work probably dates from some time before ( late 1745 ) and was expanded for the 1747 event . |
| 21 | All Tiller Girls loathe the description ‘ chorus girls ’ : its offensiveness dates from this time . |
| 22 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 23 | The recovery was to remain partial : his permanent ill-health dates from this time . |