Example sentences of "[verb] from the late [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries , with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 2 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The northern section was built from the late 1760s to 1795 . |
| 5 | Extensive ruins dating from the late 13th and 14th centuries , overlooking Swansea Bay . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the inclusion of three early works by the group in the exhibition ( dating from the late sixties ) reveals a kind of make believe idea about an A $ L/SI connection . |
| 7 | Easily Accessible : The village of Hutton is over a thousand years old , and has many buildings of historic interest , in particular Hutton Court , dating from the late 15th or early 16th century . |
| 8 | A bishop 's status was not only connected to his role in defining Christian society and to his monopolization of holy places and objects , but also based on legally conferred rights and obligations dating from the late Roman period . |
| 9 | A Hambledon CC account book dating from the late 1700s has been accepted by the government as payment in lieu of inheritance tax . |
| 10 | In the southern states , where in 1940 three-quarters of the blacks lived , the " Jim Crow " laws , dating from the late 19th century , condemned them to separate and inferior facilities on trains , in waiting-rooms and lavatories , in restaurants and drinking-fountains . |
| 11 | For the Socialists , the Republic 's most important duty was to improve the lot of Spain 's rural poor : a sincere commitment greatly reinforced by a radical change , dating from the late 1920s and climaxing in 1932–3 , in the character of the UGT . |
| 12 | This atmospheric Grade II building — dating from the late 17th century but with a primarily Georgian bar and substantial Victorian additions — is a prime tourist attraction . |
| 13 | The York cycle is the oldest , dating from the late fourteenth century , and was performed annually until the late 1560's . |
| 14 | I was fortunate to find between the leaves of a large book an exquisitely penned transcription of the Commandments and the Lord 's Prayer , all embraced in a delicate architectural framework , dating from the late eighteenth century . |
| 15 | I treasure a torn and spotted letter , valueless from the autograph point of view , dating from the late eighteenth century and endorsed on the back ‘ This Letter was found by Lord Lewisham in a Haberdashers Shop . ’ |
| 16 | A Ländler on a Swiss musical clock dating from the late 18th or early 19th century ( Claude Marchal collection , Switzerland ) goes at c.66 per bar , and a Ländlerische on one of Strand 's mechanical organs of 1790 goes at c.70 . |
| 17 | The timber-framed building dating from the late 16th century was demolished in the 19th century . |
| 18 | Most people are familiar with the hedge maze , the most famous being the Hampton Court Maze , dating from the late seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Commerce can be seen to be more closely regulated from the late seventh and eighth centuries onwards in the form of manufacturing and trading centres ( Hodges 1982a ) , although these certainly do not necessarily imply free trade ; in fact , quite the opposite , for the evidence from Saxon Southampton , Hamwic , indicates that the craftsman there were as tied and organised as the rural ‘ peasantry ’ . |
| 20 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 21 | The exact date of its original building is disputed but it probably stems from the late fifth or early sixth century . |
| 22 | By comparison with other age and sex groups , 65 years or older men showed an increased incidence of discharges because of gall stone disease beginning from the late 1970s ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 23 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 24 | The personal social services in their modern form developed from the late 1940s . |
| 25 | In Scandinavia and Britain , particularly , the industry burgeoned from the late 1920s into the 1970s , and escapes were inevitable . |
| 26 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 27 | Here , almost untouched by time , because it was regularly subsidised by the state and enthusiastically supported by the Danish monarchy , was the original French style of dancing from the late 18th and early 19th centuries , long since lost in Paris . |
| 28 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 29 | And there was grinnets not grown in any great quantity , but derived from the late sown seed oats . |
| 30 | The dangers of routine and passivity to the often joyful and serene spirit which infused abolitionists grew greater as direct British targets for the cause largely disappeared from the late 1830s onwards . |