Example sentences of "from the [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine will continue to cover American painting , drawings , prints , and sculpture from the Colonial period to 1960 , with occasional attention to decorative arts and architecture , and a bit more to photography . |
| 2 | The work seems to date from the transitional period between Old Testament Judaism and Christianity . |
| 3 | THE BOMB devastated a part of the City which contains an outstanding series of buildings , dating from the Norman period to the present day . |
| 4 | A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur . |
| 5 | That compares with 41 wins from the equivalent period in 1992 . |
| 6 | From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals . |
| 7 | This project aims to provide historians and librarians with an essential reference tool for the study of London history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 8 | The range of courses extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to recent times , and includes Scottish Literature and the literature of the United States and parts of the Commonwealth . |
| 9 | From the fifth-century period of Persian control between c.450 and 404 there survive leather documents ( G. Driver ( 1957 ) Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century BC ) which show that much of the best land in Egypt was parcelled out among absentee Persian landlords . |
| 10 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 11 | In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties . |
| 12 | His 104 items constitute a survey of European painting from the Romanesque period to the Renaissance , including fifty Italian miniatures , twenty-four German , ten Netherlandish , fifteen French , three English , and two Spanish . |
| 13 | The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , it dates from the very period in which Tristan was conceived ; in fact the Tristan drama itself was planned and its words written under Schopenhauerian influence — but influence of an ethical , rather than an aesthetic , kind . |
| 15 | This exhibition , organised by David Yeomans and accompanied by a short book of the same title , explored the relationship between architectural design and carpentry from the mediaeval period to the present day . |
| 16 | Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD . |