Example sentences of "[verb] in the twelfth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paradoxes of our story are nowhere writ so large as in Rome ; the basilicas of San Clemente and Santa Maria in Trastevere were totally rebuilt in the twelfth century — and yet they perfectly express the art and architecture of the fourth century — as perfectly as any Gothic building of the nineteenth century expresses the thirteenth , or fourteenth . |
| 2 | Rebuilt in the twelfth century over a sixth century site the Church of S. Theodore is square in plan excluding a double narthex at one end and the bema at the other . |
| 3 | This church was rebuilt in the twelfth century and is octagonal with an eastern apse ( 198 ) . |
| 4 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | First built in the twelfth century , the Kremlin is ringed with high crenellated walls and crowned with the golden domes of the cathedrals . |
| 6 | The Michelin Guide to the Côte de l'Atlantique says that this eerie and impressive cavern , which communicates by a passage through the cliff to the château on the summit , was probably made in the twelfth century to shelter the relics of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem brought back from a Crusade by Pierre II of Castillon , who at that time held the château . |
| 7 | The humble cottages are presided over by the tower of the venerable church of St Andrew , founded in the twelfth century but rebuilt and restored since with some sacrifice of its earlier features . |
| 8 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 9 | The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison , which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers . |
| 10 | Slinging siege engines used in the twelfth century had long wooden arms powered by heavy weights . |
| 11 | This includes much which has gone under the name of " students ' songs " : acerbic goliardic and satiric verse , as well as a set of narrative-dramatic comoediae modelled in the twelfth century on the ancient Latin comedy plays . |
| 12 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 13 | William of Newburgh , who lived in the twelfth century , records a folktale about the large Neolithic round barrow known as Willy Howe . |
| 14 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 15 | The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same . |
| 16 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |