Example sentences of "[adv] date from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 2 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 3 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 4 | Near the western end of the reservoir you can see a bronze age burial mound and a cup and ring marked boulder which may also date from the same period . |
| 5 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 6 | Calls for the promotion of agricultural development and welfare also dated from the Meiji government 's emphasis on industrial and commercial growth . |
| 7 | Some of these hawthorns , with their gnarled , twisted and burnished trunks , probably date from the first enclosure of the fields five or six generations ago . |
| 8 | Both Georgians and Armenians have their own independent churches and have been Christian since the fourth century , six centuries before the Russians ; their distinctive languages and alphabets also date from the fourth century . |
| 9 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |
| 10 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 11 | The real impact of the madrigal also dates from the same year , when Thomas East published Musica Transalpina , a collection of Italian madrigals with English translations together with one English madrigal by Byrd . |
| 12 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |
| 13 | The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century . |
| 14 | The Pettingill family live in a house that probably dates from the seventeenth century when Jan Piers Piers ‘ the master of the dykes ’ drained this part of the region . |
| 15 | Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century . |
| 16 | Yet most of the buildings we see today date from the 12th century or later — Henry II 's great medieval fortress , strengthened in the 13th century , was remodelled by Georgian and Victorian engineers to keep it up to date . |
| 17 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 18 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 19 | Most may therefore date from the 2nd century . |