Example sentences of "is [verb] to date " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of the Genovese crime family in this $2 billion-a-year market is said to date back 70 years . |
| 2 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 3 | The FBI and Britain 's Serious Fraud Office are investigating the scandal at its US offshoot , which is alleged to date back to 1983 and involve bogus defence contracts with Pakistan , China and South Africa . |
| 4 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 5 | MATTHEW HOWE standing back from the road nearby is thought to date from between 1665 and 1700 . |
| 6 | It is thought to date from about 600 BC . |
| 7 | It is thought to date to the Hadrianic period . |
| 8 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 9 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 10 | The main house is believed to date from 1690 and there are traces of an earlier farmhouse in the grounds . |
| 11 | The table is believed to date from the 1930s and could have been given to the club by a local building firm , whose managing director was on the Quakers board . |