Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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1 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
2 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
3 | The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century . |
4 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
5 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
8 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
9 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
10 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
11 | We perform a wide variety of choral music ranging from the 16th century to the present day . ’ |
12 | Most may therefore date from the 2nd century . |
13 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | At Ávila the walls are of granite and there are 86 towers and 10 gate-ways ( 310 ) all dating from the eleventh century . |
20 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
21 | Devon Papers , dating from the nineteenth century , of the geologist William Buckland and the naturalist Frank Buckland . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The church of All Saints stands in a hollow and is of great historic interest , dating from the 12th century . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Dating from the 12th century , this personally run hotel is the oldest moated manor house in England . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
28 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
29 | 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 ) . |
30 | 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 . |