Example sentences of "[art] [noun] date from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The policies date from the Special Areas Act 1934 ( McCrone 1976 ) , but only in the early 1950s was the first rural region ( North West Scotland ) designated .
2 The University dated from the opulent heyday of expansion and was now slightly grubby and tatty , mortared cracks grinning between the white oblongs under their urban plaque .
3 Set in a narrow medieval street , the building dates from the 14th century and is dotted with authentic 14th and 15th century furniture , fine antiques and art treasures , original pillars and sweeping stone staircases .
4 The wheel dates from the 1955 Campaign for the Congress of the People which drew up and adopted the Freedom Charter .
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 The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century .
7 The first church on the site dated from the 7th century .
8 LEFT : Bonds Mill was originally built in the early 18th century although many of the buildings date from the 1887 rebuilding .
9 The buildings date from the 1870s and are recognized as one of the best , if not the best , surviving groups of commercial buildings of that time .
10 The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace .
11 Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century .
12 The palazzo dates from the mid-nineteenth-century and was built for Count Melzi di Cusano .
13 Much of the machinery dates from the latter part of the 19th century , as evidenced by the extensive use of iron parts .
14 The marble busts against the bookcases date from the 18th and 19th centuries .
15 The poem dates from the third millennium BC , and is a eulogistic account of the life of King Gilgamesh of Uruk in Mesopotamia .
16 There are many pictures and engravings of the church dating from the 18th century .
17 The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls .
18 The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times .
19 But Joyce 's abortive service in the regiment dated from the following year , when he had left Ireland for good and when the Anglo-lrish Treaty was in force .
20 The dome dates from the same time as the courtyard façades , that is from 1770 , but the fine clock and golden grille are from the Rudolfian period .
21 The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed .
22 The exhibition spans the period from 3,000 BC to the sixteenth century , with most of the exhibits dating from the first to the third century AD .
23 The locomotives date from the 1920s .
24 This went further by challenging the immunity that the unions had enjoyed from any financial damages incurred during strikes , a privilege dating from the Liberal government 's Trade Disputes Act of 1906 .
25 Left The uneven struggle to read a newspaper on a train dates from the early days of rail travel .
26 Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay .
27 I once heard a recording dating from the American election of 1948 .
28 They descended from hereditary riding-bailiffs of the abbots of Ramsey by a serjeanty dating from the twelfth century .
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