Example sentences of "date from [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century . |
| 2 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 3 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
| 4 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 5 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 6 | Most may therefore date from the 2nd century . |
| 7 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 8 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 13 | The oldest astronomical texts now known are found on the lids of wooden coffins dating from the Ninth Dynasty ( c.2150 BC ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 16 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 17 | At Ávila the walls are of granite and there are 86 towers and 10 gate-ways ( 310 ) all dating from the eleventh century . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 21 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 22 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 23 | Devon Papers , dating from the nineteenth century , of the geologist William Buckland and the naturalist Frank Buckland . |
| 24 | Even today , most convicts are sentenced to ‘ rigorous ’ imprisonment , and , although some revisions are currently being made , the gaols in most states are run according to manuals dating from the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | The church of All Saints stands in a hollow and is of great historic interest , dating from the 12th century . |
| 26 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |
| 27 | Dating from the 12th century , this personally run hotel is the oldest moated manor house in England . |
| 28 | Europe 's oldest remaining glass cone , dating from the mid-eighteenth century , stands here where William Fenney started his own glass works in 1740 after experience as a works manager on the other side of Sheffield . |
| 29 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 30 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |