Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 2 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 3 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 12 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 15 | They still used the simpler armour found from the preceding century , with conical helmets padded or plated hauberks or jerkins , and fought with unprotected legs . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 17 | Much of the main three storey mill dates from the mid-19th century , although a large part of this is masked by the addition of later industrial plant and buildings . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 20 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 21 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 22 | In the ancient village of Mulchelney you will find the second oldest monastery in the county , with buildings surviving from the 16th century . |
| 23 | St. Asaph — One of the smallest cities in Britain the existing cathedral buildings date from the thirteenth century . |
| 24 | Hereford Cathedral Manuscripts survive from the eighth century , and the earliest deed is dated c.840 . |
| 25 | Most of the historic buildings stem from the 18th Century when they were town houses for the more prosperous traders . |
| 26 | The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century . |