Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] dating from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cross the road and take the obvious lane on the other side which leads to a farm and the prominent Arnside Tower dating from the 14th century on the hillside above . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed what we are now seeing in some cases as ‘ the genuine article ’ are quality brewery refurbishments dating from the 1920s and 1930s , good Brewers ‘ Tudor , maybe , but hardly the stuff of the ancient , inglenooky world that the modern myth-makers — the brewers and the tourism industry — would have us believe still exists . |
| 4 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 5 | The clearest examples were in the early photographic studies of child prostitutes dating from the 1860s and 1870s , where childhood innocence was erotically framed against visible signs of immoral sexuality , such as exposed genitalia or the depraved stare . |
| 6 | North-west of the village at Derwentcote are the remains of a cementation furnace dating from the early eighteenth century , a rare survival . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A young Frenchman , when in 1896 he entered his country 's diplomatic service , found himself trained as in the past , largely by being made to copy as models of style despatches dating from the pre-revolutionary monarchy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 17 | This exhibition of photographs , represents a valuable collection of glass plates dating from the 1830s . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The first two galleries have beautiful Christian stained glass windows dating from the medieval to the Art Nouveau . |
| 20 | A Hambledon CC account book dating from the late 1700s has been accepted by the government as payment in lieu of inheritance tax . |
| 21 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 22 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 23 | Its weaving tradition can be traced back several millennia , and there are a number of pile carpets dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries still in existence today . |
| 24 | A vintage horse-drawn tram from Sheffield , complete with horse , is shown in a dramatic Victorian Street setting of 1885 , together with a steam tram dating from the same year , and a steam tram trailer — representing the next stage in the development of this form of transport . |
| 25 | Gnoll Park — A designated Historical Landscape Garden dating from the 17th Century with a reservoir , cascades , lakes and playgrounds , together with many other landscape features . |