Example sentences of "from [art] thirteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view looked across a concrete courtyard from the thirteenth floor of a planning disaster , a delicious confection of grey concrete and dirty glass , to another , equally hideous architectural gem . |
| 2 | Some of the emparked herds of White Cattle claim a history of enclosure from the thirteenth century onwards , when they were confined for private sport and to decorate the landscape . |
| 3 | There are several other possible explanations but they are all of an uncertain nature , so the study will not be pursued in these pages , Instead , a name from the author 's conjugate family will be used , because its origin and development can be traced , quite unambiguously , from the thirteenth century to the twentieth . |
| 4 | Lambeth Palace Library ( London ) The library holds registers of the archbishops of Canterbury from the thirteenth century onwards , and the archives of many societies connected with the Church of England , together with those of bishops and statesmen . |
| 5 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 6 | From the thirteenth century , when it was introduced into the court during the Yuan dynasty in China , the goat 's eyelid , or happy ring , became a popular sex aid . |
| 7 | Its greatest literary monuments are the sequence of French prose tales from the thirteenth century about King Arthur , known as the Vulgate Cycle and transposed into English only in highly compressed form by Sir Thomas Malory ; and the later Italian epics about the knights of Charlemagne , Boiardo 's Orlando Innamorato , ‘ Roland in Love , and Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso , ‘ Roland Run Mad ’ , imitated in English by Spenser 's The Faerie Queene . |
| 8 | The first display runs until 18 April at the sixteenth-century Oratorio di San Rocco and includes medieval ceramics from the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth . |
| 9 | The buildings of the Garden of England are extensively surveyed in Anthony Quiney 's English Domestic Architecture : Kent Houses ( £35 ) , a fully illustrated survey of the county 's buildings from the thirteenth century to the present . |
| 10 | St. Asaph — One of the smallest cities in Britain the existing cathedral buildings date from the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 12 | This was an adaptation , evolved by the courts , of the writ of account which from the thirteenth century had been available against bailiffs , factors and receivers . |
| 13 | From the thirteenth century European lapidaries conducted active experiments in cleaving diamond crystals and in learning how to shape them in ways best calculated to admit and reflect the maximum light ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 14 | But also , from its early stages , the academy could be either a general or , increasingly , a specialized learned society ; there are many such examples , from the thirteenth century onwards , in speculative philosophy , literature and language , and the sciences . |
| 15 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 16 | The bishops ' pre-occupation , too , was with structured administration , which the registers of their activities begin to record from the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | The magnificent 300 feet campanile — the Torre Ghirlandina — dates from the thirteenth century . |
| 18 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to ask my caddie to stand behind me to make sure I was aiming correctly , ’ he said after pushing a 6-iron shot from the thirteenth tee then hooking wide of the short fifteenth green with the same club . |
| 20 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |