Example sentences of "[noun sg] date [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 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 | Your finger ring dates to the 15th century and is gold on silver . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 15 | The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 18 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At Vergina in 1977 the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos , excavating the royal Macedonian graves of the fourth century BC at Vergina , found a bronze tripod dating from the mid-fifth century . |
| 22 | Item No 4 : the large loop would normally be attached to a belt as this is a purse frame dating to the 15th to 16th century . |
| 23 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 24 | There are many pictures and engravings of the church dating from the 18th century . |
| 25 | In music dating from the 11th century to the present day , each major festival in the church 's calendar was celebrated by the singers and instrumentalists of Musica Sacra , directed by Ann Pinhey . |
| 26 | Beginning at the turn of the century , agreements between Iran and France created a French monopoly on excavations at Susiana , an intercultural trading centre dating from the first millennium to the late fourth century . |
| 27 | The poem dates from the third millennium BC , and is a eulogistic account of the life of King Gilgamesh of Uruk in Mesopotamia . |
| 28 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 29 | The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls . |
| 30 | At S. George , which was a small abbey founded in 840 , most of the present church dates from the ninth to tenth century with the ninth century crypt as the earliest part . |