Example sentences of "date [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 2 | The village has an ancient history dating back to Roman times ( the remains of a Roman wall testify to this ) . |
| 3 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 6 | Dating back to medieval times , Britain 's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures . |
| 7 | Dating back to medieval times , Britain 's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures . |
| 8 | This house dating back to medieval times stands in tranquillity at the end of a long drive . |
| 9 | It is believed the money allegedly went missing over a long period , dating back to last season 's Cup Final . |
| 10 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 11 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
| 12 | The first written evidence of its existence as Siglestorne was in the Domesday Book , although recent archaeological excavations on Spring Field revealed the existence of a previous settlement which dated back to Roman times or earlier . |
| 13 | Buttoning up his fly ( Sutcliffe 's trousers date back to that era , and look it ) he retreats to the washbasins on the other side of the room . |
| 14 | The earliest known glass mirrors date back to Greco-Roman times , and were found in the tombs at Arsinoe in Egypt . |
| 15 | In fact , the Algarve coastline seems to be littered with a succession of castles and fortresses , some of which date back to Moorish times . |
| 16 | ‘ According to the town guide they date back to Celtic times . |
| 17 | Pete Smith uses techniques that date back to medieval times to work the rods of metal into everything from gates to furniture . |
| 18 | Perhaps some of Wilfrid 's monasteries in Mercia ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) date back to this period in his life for Wulfhere was a patron of monasticism . |
| 19 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 20 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 21 | The lower half of the tower dates back to Saxon times . |
| 22 | Degrees are still however conferred by the Chancellor , whose title dates back to pre-Reformation days and whose authority is represented by the University Mace . |