Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] from [art] [num ord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the ancient village of Mulchelney you will find the second oldest monastery in the county , with buildings surviving from the 16th century . |
| 9 | St. Asaph — One of the smallest cities in Britain the existing cathedral buildings date from the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | Hereford Cathedral Manuscripts survive from the eighth century , and the earliest deed is dated c.840 . |
| 11 | Most of the historic buildings stem from the 18th Century when they were town houses for the more prosperous traders . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In doing this the government was employing techniques perfected from the sixteenth century onwards in the expansion of the Muscovite state towards the Black Sea and the Volga basin . |
| 14 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 16 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 17 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 18 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 19 | Admittedly two Gallic chronicles survive from the fifth century , and the Chronicle of Gregory 's own contemporary Marius of Avenches is a text of utmost importance with regard to the territories once ruled by the Burgundian kings . |