Example sentences of "dates [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 2 | This law dates back to the Middle Ages , when it was a means of filling the royal coffers , and until now it has allowed the State ( today the Treasury ) to claim possession of valuable objects whose owners can not be traced . |
| 3 | Though build-about 1740 this timber frame type of construction dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 5 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 6 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 7 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |