Example sentences of "dates [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 2 | Like Edfu and Dendera , Kom Ombo dates from the Ptolemaic period , the last spasm of ancient Egypt when a Hellenized dynasty ruled the country from Alexandria . |
| 3 | It dates from the early part of the 19th century and was worked around the 1850s by Allaway and Henry Crawshay , the latter probably having connections with William Crawshay of Camp Mill , at Soudley . |
| 4 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 5 | The hall dates from the ninth century and is divided in the centre by a row of four circular columns with simple leaf capitals , like the design in S. John 's Chapel in the Tower of London ( 300 ) . |
| 6 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 7 | The church itself dates from the fifth century but was altered in the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | It dates from the latter half of the nineteenth century when improvements in local passenger transport allowed people to reside at greater distances from their workplaces . |
| 9 | Much of the machinery dates from the latter part of the 19th century , as evidenced by the extensive use of iron parts . |
| 10 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 11 | The magnificent 300 feet campanile — the Torre Ghirlandina — dates from the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 13 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 14 | Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century . |
| 15 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 16 | The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls . |
| 17 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 19 | ‘ It means that , since the de Sciorto title dates from the mid-sixteenth century , I come somewhere in the middle of the pecking order , ’ he grinned , his eyes lidded as he moved his gaze down over her defensively folded arms , lingering on the golden swell of her breasts at the button fastening on her T-shirt . |
| 20 | Much of the present structure dates from the 19th century , the mill taking its name from Brimscombe Port , built close at hand by the Thames and Severn Canal Co . |
| 21 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 22 | Although this site is quite old , the present building dates from the 19th century . |
| 23 | The main building dates from the 19th century and two new wings have since been added . |
| 24 | This exciting find dates from the 2nd century . |
| 25 | The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century . |
| 26 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 27 | It dates from the second half of the 14C . |
| 28 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 29 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , it dates from the very period in which Tristan was conceived ; in fact the Tristan drama itself was planned and its words written under Schopenhauerian influence — but influence of an ethical , rather than an aesthetic , kind . |