Example sentences of "by [art] romans " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aaron is a Moorish soldier of fortune , who with his mistress , Tamora , has been captured by the Romans in their war against the Goths . |
| 2 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 3 | The term ‘ Palestine ’ was coined over 1,000 years later by the Romans who renamed the country after the ancient Philistines in an attempt to de-Judaise the Holy Land and expunge all Jewish references . |
| 4 | From the first century AD , the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans , so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel . |
| 5 | It was found that gold leaf was generally used by the Romans to plate high-lead bronzes , although at later periods the choice of gilding method was not governed by the metal composition . |
| 6 | The reasons for the difference in treatment of gilding and silvering by the Romans is not clear . |
| 7 | Such research provides a means of tracing the progress of technological change : for example the development from the early exploitation of native metal to the alloying of copper with arsenic or tin to make bronze and then to the large-scale manufacture of brass ( copper-zinc alloy ) by the Romans . |
| 8 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 9 | ‘ It was built by the Romans for our Yorkshire lass Cartimandua — ‘ |
| 10 | Mikvas are being excavated in Israel , and at the top of Massada where the Jewish zealots were besieged by the Romans around two thousand years ago , a mikva has been discovered among the ruins . |
| 11 | Even when besieged by the Romans , they built a mikva at the top of a high mountain in the desert . |
| 12 | Buxton Springs were discovered by the Romans in 79AD , and they believed that the water had special health-giving properties . |
| 13 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 14 | An example of the political interpretation of coin portraiture can be seen in the fine portraits of a certain Tarcondimotus , who was appointed by the Romans to be the ruler of a small part of south-east Asia Minor in the late first century BC , and subsequently given the title ‘ king ’ by Mark Antony . |
| 15 | But this conclusion would be quite misleading , since the pattern described is typical of all British sites and is a reflection of the coins circulating in Britain throughout its occupation by the Romans ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 16 | The other trees on my autumn planting list are the Indian bean tree Catalpa bignonioides and a medlar Mespilus germanica , brought here by the Romans but nowadays found only in old gardens . |
| 17 | Many were taken away by the Romans , others by Napoleon , but ours was a present from the Egyptian government in the last century — a jolly nice present , too , if I may say so . |
| 18 | The rise of Christianity was opposed by the Romans , and most famously by Nero , whose persecutions of the earliest Christians started around 64AD . |
| 19 | The taking of booty from conquered cities was called by the Romans deditio ( surrender ) , a process in which captured weapons , money , works of art or other valuables were dedicated to the gods at Rome , thereby giving divine sanction to the imposition of Roman rule . |
| 20 | The Rottweiler originates from a town of the same name , Rottweil , known as Arae Flaviae by the Romans . |
| 21 | On the Medway estuary in Kent , raised banks built by the Romans to keep out the sea lasted substantially until the eighteenth century , and the extent of Roman reclamation appears to have been formidable . |
| 22 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 23 | From then on the year was regarded by the Romans as beginning on that day . |
| 24 | Long before there was a day called Sunday ( named by the Romans after the sun ) the ancient Israelites numbered their days one to six , rounded off by the rest day ( Sabbath ) . |
| 25 | Eventually the day consecrated by the Romans to the sun was identified with the Jewish first day , and given a Christian interpretation where Christ was referred to as the ‘ Sun of Righteousness ’ . |
| 26 | In the surrounding countryside farming continues in a way that is very little different from what was left to us by the Romans , though sunflowers have recently begun to replace some of the olive trees . |
| 27 | South of the village is an area known locally as ‘ Hills and Holes ’ — deserted and overgrown quarry pits where the coarse limestone called ‘ ragstone ’ was quarried by the Romans and widely used in medieval times . |
| 28 | Angles , Saxons and Jutes gradually colonised parts of Britain and it seems that the Saxons , at least in East Anglia , Kent and Hampshire , helped to maintain the general improvement of British cattle which had been initiated by the Romans . |
| 29 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 30 | At regular intervals each year thousands of worshippers flock to Naples Cathedral to witness the ‘ miracle ’ of the liquefaction of a small phial of blood purportedly from Saint Januarius , martyred by the Romans in 305 . |