Example sentences of "from [art] ninth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill was a shafted weapon with a crescent-shaped blade sharpened on the inside ; it was current from the ninth century onwards in various forms and , like the fork , had an agricultural origin as an improvised weapon which gradually became specialised in its own right . |
| 2 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 3 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 4 | The two chief rivals for Dalmatia from the ninth century to the twelfth were the Croats and the Venetians . |
| 5 | It is not the intention of this book to examine towns , but from the ninth century onwards , trade and commerce and the associated industrial and craft activities increasingly took place in or were controlled by towns . |
| 6 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 7 | The hall dates from the ninth century and is divided in the centre by a row of four circular columns with simple leaf capitals , like the design in S. John 's Chapel in the Tower of London ( 300 ) . |
| 8 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 9 | The oldest astronomical texts now known are found on the lids of wooden coffins dating from the Ninth Dynasty ( c.2150 BC ) . |
| 10 | Guests can enjoy panoramic views from the ninth floor cocktail bar and A La Carte Restaurant , featuring an extensive Chef 's Table . |
| 11 | The strict anti-reformist line resulting from the ninth plenum was largely absent from the resolutions of the 10th plenum held in December 1990 . |
| 12 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
| 13 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |