Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
| 2 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 3 | The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century . |
| 4 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 5 | We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century . |
| 6 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 7 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
| 8 | And although the Tude has plants in its waters , I am reluctant to believe that any of them are lilies ; for Chalais has suffered from the twentieth century as Aubeterre has not , and the Tude is polluted whereas the Dronne runs clear . |
| 9 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 10 | And an absolute picture … the folly copied from an eighteenth century painting . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Bayldon was accidentally transported from the 11th century to the 20th as the wizard Catweazle , while vandals in Australia tried to kill Skippy the bush kangaroo at Watarah National Park . |
| 12 | Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century . |
| 13 | A change is also detected from a mid-nineteenth century optimism that a free economy left to itself would eventually generate sufficient wealth to solve many problems , to pessimism about whether the British economy was capable of such sustained progress . |
| 14 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 15 | The Old Town was developed from the 11th century , originally within defensive walls , around the rock on whose peak is situated the famed Edinburgh Castle . |
| 16 | The establishment of serfdom conditioned the way in which the relationship between State and society developed from the seventeenth century onwards . |
| 17 | Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection . |
| 18 | More important , " envoy " ( known from the fifteenth century in its Latin form ablegatus ) was beginning to be widely used . |
| 19 | In any case , the land and time left at their disposal was steadily reduced from the seventeenth century as pomeshchiks and monasteries expanded their demesne and exacted dues in labour ( barshchina ) rather than quit-rent ( obrok ) . |
| 20 | Mathematics had long had , in the ‘ Arabic ’ numerals coming originally from India , and in the symbols which had been invented from the seventeenth century on , an international language of symbols . |
| 21 | Here , there 's another parador contrived from a 16th century building — the Hostal de Reyes Catolicas , which was built by Ferdinand and Isabella as an inn for pilgrims and is still fulfilling its original purpose . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most unskilled labourers were part of the indigenous working-class culture inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |
| 25 | The early 1860s had witnessed the culmination of the great modernising transformation of the criminal justice system in Britain : away from the reliance on hanging , whipping and transportation that had dominated the ‘ Bloody Code ’ inherited from the eighteenth century , towards an essentially novel emphasis on the reformation of character through the discipline of the penitentiary . |
| 26 | Providing the general boundary was the Christian , Pauline , tradition , sustained through the institutionalisation of the Church , and fertilised from the sixteenth century by the Puritan and dissenting traditions . |
| 27 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 28 | Converted from a 17th century paper mill , this hotel is built into the cliffs just half a mile from the resort of Minori . |
| 29 | The counties with the most charters are Kent , Somerset and Worcestershire , and here large blocks of land were defined from the seventh century onwards , particularly when they were granted from kings to early monasteries . |
| 30 | Such difficulties of interpretation as the modern local historian may encounter are not , however , confined to this class of writing alone , as a single example taken from the sixteenth century will illustrate . |