Example sentences of "[pron] date from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 2 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 3 | As called for by Mitterrand in January 1989 [ see p. 36404 ] , the government in the following month presented its programme for modernizing the criminal code which dated from the Napoleonic era . |
| 4 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 5 | The conference also provided an opportunity for Australia and Fiji to repair the rift in their bilateral relations which dated from the two military coups in Fiji in 1987 . |
| 6 | Considerable care was taken in constructing them , in hardwoods , and there is a conformity in the examples known which date from the fifth to eighth centuries . |
| 7 | There are two chief types of tombs which date from the seventh to first century B.C. One type consists of a tumulus , or burial mound , of earth , circular in plan and surrounded at the base by a stone wall . |
| 8 | The museum is housed in a former manor house , parts of which date from the 15th century including a Great Hall and an oakpanelled room . |
| 9 | Listening to these ‘ old ’ recordings , most of which date from the early days of this century up to 1939 , one is conscious of a technical vocal mastery , musical understanding and intensity of communication that bridges the years . |
| 10 | The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Great Brington contains the tombs of Lawrence , the great-great-great-grandfather of George Washington and the former 's brother Robert and sister-in-law which date from the early 1600s . |
| 11 | The new concept of form reached its fullest expression to date in the work of Picasso done at Horta de San Juan , and some sheets of drawings which date from the early days of his return to Paris , show Picasso methodically applying the Cubist concept of form to objects of different kinds and shapes : to a human head , a box , an apple and so on . |
| 12 | The ( Presidential ) apartments are as faded as the President ( a reference to the Prince 's dressing in sombre colours ) and the bronze chandeliers which date from the First Empire , in the same style as those of the English Embassy , make decent lighting impossible for there are too few lights in the chandeliers on the wall-brackets , and the candelabras . |
| 13 | Indeed there are West African sites , where copper was mined or refined , which date from the first millennium BC and perhaps even the second . |
| 14 | As in so many villages , the parish church is the oldest building , the earliest parts of which date from the 13th century . |
| 15 | Countless other pubs which date from the Georgian period , or at least incorporate a significant element of Georgian building work , have suffered similar fates . |
| 16 | Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century . |
| 17 | It also completed the long task of national reconciliation , burying by example the myth which dates from the 1946-49 Civil War , that right and left can never co-operate . |
| 18 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Images from Picasso 's eternally popular Vollard Suite , which dates from the early 1930s , bring between £8,000 and £12,000 plus — but these , though easy to like because of their smooth neo-classical style , are not coloured and were published in a fairly big edition . |
| 20 | Two others , Mr Constantin Pirvulescu and Mr Gheorghe Apostol , both held senior positions in the party during the Ceausescu era , which dates from the mid-Sixties . |
| 21 | The object of this latest project is Palermo Cathedral 's Chiaramonte crucifix , which dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and was given to the cathedral in 1311 by Manfredo Chiaramonte . |
| 22 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 23 | It was during the restoration of the church , which dates from the Visigothic period ( approximately 460–700 AD ) , that Sauniere started behaving suspiciously . |
| 24 | The nearest precedent — which dates from the 30s — involved an incident of non-consensual heterosexual spanking in which only academic consideration was given to the effect which consent might have had . |
| 25 | The Easton Farm Park is a private working farm and museum , the original farm itself dating from the 1870s , when it was built as a model dairy farm by the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 26 | The church itself dates from the fifth century but was altered in the fourteenth century . |
| 27 | When the seals , which belonged to Rose Cuthbert , were stolen the police said they dated from the pre-Ming dynasty . |
| 28 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 29 | Partnerships in the UK are a contemporary feature ; in their present incarnation they date from the mid 1980s and since then have grown remarkably into a national phenomenon . |
| 30 | They date from the last ten years when an interest in colour , triggered by a visit to Egypt in 1982 , assumed a dominant position in her work . |