Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] twelfth " in BNC.

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1 In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals .
2 If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul .
3 The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts .
4 And in the twelfth race , the six forty five erm West Mead Ricky erm adversely drawn in trap four , but nevertheless I think he 's a little bit better class , so that 's the fourth leg of our Radio Oxford yankee erm West Mead Ricky , that 's the ten twenty .
5 But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck .
6 But in the twelfth century , the house of Alsace could afford the high costs of their expeditions — Thierry went to Jerusalem four times , Philip twice — and the counts ' repeated absences in fact promoted administrative reform ; the baillis and the Grote Bref were as much the products of crusading as the English and Norman judicial system and exchequers were the product of the king-duke 's divided attentions .
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