Example sentences of "[coord] [art] twelfth " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 2 | The eleventh paragraph recommended that the buildings should be laid out according to a plan , and the ‘ very able and magnificent block plan , by M. Crepinet , may furnish valuable hints towards preserving the desired unity ’ , and the twelfth paragraph said that a residence for the Foreign Secretary was not an absolute necessity , and if reception rooms were to be provided they should be available to every minister . |
| 3 | Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century . |
| 4 | And it is fairly clear that the slaves of northern Europe died out between the eighth and the twelfth centuries by absorption into the larger class of serfs or villeins , personally free , but tied to the soil , retaining certain symbols of unfreedom . |
| 5 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 6 | But the pilgrimages went on , and have never ceased ; and there is another element of continuity between the tenth and the twelfth centuries : Rome was a city of turbulence and riots . |
| 7 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 8 | In principle , feudal tenure was the source from which most monarchs and most great lords recruited their armies between the tenth century and the twelfth . |
| 9 | And the twelfth fret width is only 1″ . |
| 10 | So though modem research has tended to discredit the idea of a medieval aristocracy ‘ of service ’ , to insist on blue blood for the great lines of the tenth and eleventh centuries , and to see in the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries an ever-sharper patrilineal descent obliterating other considerations in family history , it should not be forgotten that at least one great princely house was encouraged to view its progress in quite other terms . |
| 11 | Miss Rogers , twice Irish girls champion , got her nose in front at the eighth but was forced to concede the tenth where her second overshot the green into very thick rough and the twelfth where she was in a greenside bunker . |
| 12 | Inside , the original mosaic pavement of the sixth century is very fine and the twelfth century pulpit is of unusual design . |
| 13 | James was in a very jovial mood yesterday , however , after battling through the wind to shoot five birdies and only two bogeys on his card — at the sixth and the twelfth , both of which he three-putted . |
| 14 | It was a faint constellation lying between Leo and Gemini , and a twelfth of the world 's population born under its sign had long pincers and never let go . |
| 15 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 16 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 17 | So if we had a sixth and a twelfth well the sixth is the same as two twelfth and another twelfth makes how many ? |
| 18 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 19 | The UK , in these terms , invests least at a third to a half of the investment in the USA and FRG , and a twelfth of that in Japan . |
| 20 | Thus if we trace the zones of the Lower Lias ( as it is called ) from the Dorset " basin " to the Mendip " axis " , we find that 11 of the 12 zones thin as they ought ( figure 3.3 ) with no signs of any breaks in the succession , but the twelfth actually thickens markedly ! |