Example sentences of "dating [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbon dating for the Altamira caves , a penguin troubles sceptics at the submerged Grotte Henri Cosquer , and the sponge is a give-away at Alave |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This atmospheric Grade II building — dating from the late 17th century but with a primarily Georgian bar and substantial Victorian additions — is a prime tourist attraction . |
| 4 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 5 | More impressive are the Japanese manufacturers whose cars dating from the early Eighties can run on unleaded without adjustment . |
| 6 | Next to it is The Little Hall , dating from the fourteenth century , with its floorboards gleaming with the patina of age , low-beamed ceilings and a tiny , unruly , charming walled garden . |
| 7 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A story of local democracy and participatory initiative dating from the reforms of the later 1880s came to its sad close . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the inclusion of three early works by the group in the exhibition ( dating from the late sixties ) reveals a kind of make believe idea about an A $ L/SI connection . |
| 11 | Typical of the stock are six chairs in Regency style but dating from the 1950s , for £850 ; and a pair of delicate late-Victorian rosewood chairs at £85 each . |
| 12 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 13 | Although dating from the 1400s , it incorporates elements from earlier times ; mainly a Saxon arch . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | In the Talmud , and therefore dating from the very early centuries of the Common Era , there is the following comment on the Exodus story of the crossing of the Sea : ‘ When the Egyptian hosts were drowning in the Red Sea , ’ say the rabbis , ‘ the angels in heaven were about to break forth into songs of jubilation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 18 | THE BOMB devastated a part of the City which contains an outstanding series of buildings , dating from the Norman period to the present day . |
| 19 | This is an enchanting old inn , dating from the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Among these are silver reliquaries , a beautiful ivory cover ( diptych ) for an evangeliary , dating from the fifth-century and covered with early Christian designs and a later ( early eleventh-century ) cover for Archbishop Ariberto 's evangeliary , a magnificent work in gold and enamel . |
| 21 | This is an early church , dating from the ninth-century , which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo . |
| 22 | In the Dante Room that leads off the Bedroom ( which contains a collection of early Murano glass ) is a magnificent stained-glass windows by Giuseppe Bertini , dating from the mid-nineteenth-century . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine . |
| 26 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 27 | It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe . |
| 28 | At Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , dating from the same period , the trains ran through wide twin portals of a double-sided station with a great clock-tower rising between the tracks . |
| 29 | Both Cuba and Jamaica had extensive railway systems , dating from the earliest years of railway construction . |
| 30 | In Calcutta the railway companies seem almost to have been overawed by the classical splendour of the Viceroy s palace and the great secretariat buildings dating from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |