Example sentences of "from [art] sixth [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All three Evangelists agree that the account of the death of Jesus begins with the comment about ‘ darkness ’ being over the ‘ whole land ’ from the sixth hour ( 12 noon ) until the ninth hour ( 3.00 pm ) .
2 After the judgement the heart was returned to the dead person for his continued life and from the Sixth Dynasty onwards its presence might be ensured by the provision of a heart amulet on the chest .
3 He also read carefully the famous book of Pope Gregory the Great , from the sixth century , on the pastoral office in the Church .
4 From the sixth century the title papa became especially Roman in the West .
5 There is an exceptionally beautiful Greek vase depicting mobbing , dating from the sixth century BC .
6 He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions .
7 From the sixth century to the late nineteenth century Japan 's only military involvement on the Asian mainland was Hideyoshi 's short-lived and abortive invasion of Korea in 1592 .
8 From the sixth century AD onwards the country fell , with frequent incursions from varying directions , into five main spheres of influence .
9 And here is another link : at Cyrene , as at the Syracuse of Gelon , Hiero and Polyzalos , monarchy survived from the sixth century , when most of the cities of old Greece got rid of their tyrants , into the fifth .
10 From the sixth century to the third century BC , some of the Habashat , the Agazan and other tribes in South Arabia migrated across the Red Sea and settled in the northern highlands of present-day Abyssinia .
11 Earlier Frankish successions from the sixth century onwards had divided the heartlands , the patrimony , between royal brothers as well as assigning whatever acquired regna were available : the 806 and 817 projects , by contrast , gave the first-born son the patrimony entire , leaving the younger brothers only acquired regna .
12 Yet from the sixth century , under Pope Gelasius , there was a polypticus , a register of financial rights recording the revenues of the Church , which was revised by Gregory the Great .
13 Examples from the sixth century B.C. exist , generally of a cruder type of masonry at , for example , Volterra and Cortona .
14 In the literature to have survived from the sixth century , however , the legacy of Sidonius is as significant as that of Lérins .
15 from The Sixth Exercise given by Paul Klee at the Bauhaus , 3 July 1922 from Paul Klee Notebooks Volume 1 : The thinking eye
16 In order to avoid any bias resulting from the selection process ( originating from measurement errors which may tend to put shares which had positive discrepancies into the high beta portfolios and vice versa ) the return was calculated using the data from the sixth year following the beginning of the period in which the betas had been estimated and chosen .
17 Apart from the sixth scene , where Anderson 's frequent hesitations are largely predictable from the confrontational nature of the situation , evidence of this difference is provided by scenes three and four .
18 Out of the sixth from the sixth form that you 're
19 On either side of the block stood a praepostor from the sixth form , there to see that sentence was carried out decently and to order .
20 The Newton Aycliffe teenagers were close runners-up to the winners from the sixth form centre .
21 This came from the sixth form .
22 The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua .
23 To take an example from the Sixth VAT Directive , one may quote the ninth recital , which is in the following terms :
24 A BOY aged three fell from a sixth floor balcony in Murcia , Spain , bounced off a sunshade on to a clothes line and escaped unhurt .
25 as if to celebrate the opening of the new Block , the following year saw the record total of 23 State and Local University Entrance Awards , together with three Open Awards and four other places at Oxbridge : this from a Sixth Form of only 80 was no mean achievement .
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