Example sentences of "dating [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 3 | Here again he sees all sorts of factors dating from the distant past as limiting and distorting potentialities . |
| 4 | To showcase the import of Impulse ! there is a truly superbly presented two-CD ‘ sampler ’ of many of the label 's highlights ( Coltrane with Ellington , Ellington with Coleman Hawkins and a Charles Mingus big band , to name a few ) , mostly dating from the mid '60s . |
| 5 | This charcoal-burning blast furnace , dating from the mid 18th century , is largely intact and now fully conserved . |
| 6 | THE BOMB devastated a part of the City which contains an outstanding series of buildings , dating from the Norman period to the present day . |
| 7 | More impressive are the Japanese manufacturers whose cars dating from the early Eighties can run on unleaded without adjustment . |
| 8 | As an example of a class of artefact whose outline shapes are of particular interest to the expert , let us turn to bronze axes dating from the Early Bronze Age of southern Britain ( fig. 9.1 ) . |
| 9 | The palazzo is an excellent town house dating from the early sixteenth-century , although almost all that you see now is from a remodelling in 1841 . |
| 10 | North-west of the village at Derwentcote are the remains of a cementation furnace dating from the early eighteenth century , a rare survival . |
| 11 | Order of St John Library ( London ) The Sovereign and Military Order of St John of Jerusalem was founded c.1100 , and the collection includes a number of manuscripts dating from the early centuries . |
| 12 | Also very important are the writings of Fernando Pessoa , dating from the early part of this century . |
| 13 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 14 | Torr House is an attractive granite building , dating from the early 18th century , and was home , originally , to a woollen merchant . |
| 15 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 16 | ‘ Still life of sea bream , oranges , garlic , a cloth and kitchen utensils ’ is one of a group of such works dating from the early 1770s ; the Prado has a second version . |
| 17 | A fine nude female figure dating from the early years of the artist 's career ( lot 310 , est. £60,000–80,000 ) was purchased for £115,000 by a bidder seated in the room against competition from New York dealer , David Nehmad , who captured Dubuffet 's ‘ Promenade Agreste ’ ( lot 314 , est. £65,000–85,000 ) for £128,000 against several telephone bidders . |
| 18 | Other highlights include a Cycladic marble reclining female figure with folded arms dating from the early bronze age ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–326,000 ) and a Roman marble portrait of Demosthenes ( est. $300,000–400,000 ; £196,000–261,000 ) . |
| 19 | One long-standing feature of Texas prisons dating from the early times , and which occurred intermittently in many American prison administrations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , was that of ‘ leasing out ’ prisons . |
| 20 | The inaugural exhibition of Maak , its name deriving from the initials of its directors and situated in Blackburn Road , is a group of nine sculptures by Phillip King ( to 5 October ) dating from the early years of his career and previously shown in the recent survey of his art at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 21 | Oblong sliders or belt fasteners from Late Neolithic contexts on the other hand resemble Yorkshire jet , as do the conical buttons with V-perforations at the base associated with Beaker pottery and the crescentic multistrand necklaces with toggles and spacer beads dating from the Early Bronze Age ( fig. 10 ) . |
| 22 | The legacy of Britain 's largest ever baby boom , dating from the early years of this century , manifested itself in the growth of the numbers of people of pensionable age in the 1960s and 1970s and the dramatic increase in the numbers of the very elderly in the 1980s . |
| 23 | The largest percentage increase , however , was recorded by the very elderly — the survivors of the large birth cohorts dating from the early years of this century — with the number of people aged 75 and over up by 46 per cent on their 1971 level . |
| 24 | C. A. Fleming , 1983 ) , dating from the early years of our century . |
| 25 | The former approach has been the classical one , dating from the early statistical models of rubber elasticity based on random walk theory ; the latter has been followed by the rheologists , those who study solution properties and in recent years developed in new directions by de Gennes and Edwards and their collaborators . |
| 26 | The reason lies in historical differences between England and Continental countries , dating from the feudal era , and in particular the Norman Conquest … |
| 27 | Jellyfish-remains dating from the Archaeozoic/Cambrian boundary have been found , for example , in Australia . |
| 28 | The Polyptyque for violin and two string orchestras is much later , dating from the penultimate year of Martin 's life , when he was 83 . |
| 29 | The writings of Spanish priests dating from the colonial period confirm the high social standing of jadeite among the Indians . |
| 30 | It has been rebuilt and extended on many occasions with the passing centuries , much of the present buildings dating from the middle part of the 19th century . |