Example sentences of "dating [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 2 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 3 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | In the grounds of Mapledurham House , where Alexander Pope visited the Blount sisters , is a brick and timber water mill , dating partly from the fifteenth century , with later additions , the oldest surviving mill on the River Thames . |
| 5 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | These questions are partially answered , quite explicitly , by the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas , a very early work dating probably from the end of the first century . |
| 7 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 8 | The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique , and still has stock dating back for generations . |
| 9 | ‘ That Christmas ’ ( not that it matters ) was Christmas 1911 , which Pound spent as a guest of Maurice Hewlett 's at the Old Rectory , Broad Chalke , Salisbury — a house which had once been a nunnery , dating back to 1487 . |
| 10 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 11 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 12 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 13 | Comprises three limestone caves ( one of which is the longest in Britain ) all of which illustrate how they served as homes for both humans and animals : including the Bone cave , rich in archaeological evidence with details of the Flintsone-like inhabitants dating back to the Bronze Age . |
| 14 | The abolition of rates fulfils an ambition of Mrs Thatcher 's dating back to 1974 . |
| 15 | So one set out with a policy of having good human relations and my friendship with Marcus Sieff ( now president of Marks $ Spencer ) dating back to 1953 has also had an influence . |
| 16 | Dating back to medieval times , Britain 's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures . |
| 17 | But , dating back to Biko 's days , the BCM has a strong tradition of ‘ non-collaboration , ’ which means shunning all contact with ‘ collaborators ’ serving in government-established institutions . |
| 18 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 19 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 20 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 21 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 22 | Most ancient silver was extracted from argentiferous ( silver-rich ) lead by cupellation , a process dating back to at least the second millennium BC , which involved oxidising the lead to molten litharge ( lead oxide ) , leaving the relatively unreactive silver as the metal . |
| 23 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Lawyers and doctors had their own institutions dating back to Tudor times , but the great expansion of the professions occurred in the Victorian age . |
| 25 | A strategy based on specialisation and tight cost controls dating back to the rescue period has provided the basis for the turnaround under chief executive Ron Garrick . |
| 26 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 27 | A : Classique Tours of Paisley ( 041 889 4050 ) runs fascinating tours taking in the Hebridean Islands , Royal Deeside or the Borders , using comfortable , small , classic buses , many dating back to the 1950s and 60s . |
| 28 | Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves , which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period . |
| 29 | To the left of the doorway is the first postbox in Milan , dating back to the Napoleonic era . |
| 30 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |