Example sentences of "in the eleventh " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 2 | In other words , the true date lies between TL 1080 and 1240 , with 95 per cent confidence , clearly demonstrating that the third alternative holds : the daub is broadly contemporary with the backfilling of the drain and coincides with clearance of buildings in the eleventh century AD to make way for the building of the priory church . |
| 3 | 8.8 Three images of a Chinese fang ding vessel ( OA 1973.7–26.4 ) probably made in the eleventh century BC . |
| 4 | But in general Boniface was one of the greatest exponents of a high view of metropolitan and episcopal power which would confront the reformers who asserted papal authority in the eleventh century . |
| 5 | Many intellectual strands of the Carolingian Renaissance , subsequently dropped , were taken up again in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 6 | In the same way the debasement of the gold coinage of the Byzantine empire in the eleventh century — after six centuries of purity — is indicative of a mismatch between resources and expenditure . |
| 7 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |
| 8 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 9 | This instrument had been introduced in the West in the eleventh century from the world of Islam , which in those days enjoyed a higher degree of civilization and of scientific and technological expertise than the West . |
| 10 | Anindita Balslev has recently drawn attention to the subtlety of many of the Hindu philosophical arguments , for example that concerning the perceptibility of time which took place in the eleventh century . |
| 11 | In the eleventh century , they were one of two nomadic tribes to erupt into sudden and ferocious activity , for at the other end of the Mediterranean , the Seljuk Turks poured into Asia Minor . |
| 12 | Body armour varied enormously ; earlier forms in the eleventh century tended to be scale armour , in which reinforcement was added to a leather garment . |
| 13 | Ramsey Abbey , for instance , paid a tribute of four thousand eels a year , during Lent , for the right to take stone from Barnack in the eleventh century . |
| 14 | The original mill here was built in the eleventh century . |
| 15 | No doubt the Alderney and the Guernsey had a shared ancestry : both islands were colonised by Normandy monks in the eleventh century . |
| 16 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 17 | The second method , the use of which became much more widespread , also began in Europe — in the eleventh century . |
| 18 | Exeter Cathedral Library The library was founded in the eleventh century , and the Exon Domesday and several other documents survive in situ from that date . |
| 19 | In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’ |
| 20 | There is abundant evidence to show that in almost every corner of Europe the area under the plough was expanding : villages were growing ; new lands were being colonized ; marshes were being reclaimed , forests felled ; in the eleventh and twelfth centuries the frontiers of Europe were being pressed outwards , and on Germany 's eastern frontier , and to a lesser extent elsewhere , new land was being settled by peasants as well as by lords . |
| 21 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 22 | A distinction was drawn in the eleventh and twelfth centuries between ordinary homage and ‘ liege ’ homage . |
| 23 | Yet even in the eleventh century there was something artificial in William the Conqueror 's notion of dividing England into about 6,000 knights ' fees . |
| 24 | But in the eleventh and twelfth centuries a village society dominated by the lord , to whom the majority of peasants owed varying degrees of allegiance , of service and of rent , was characteristic of wide areas of western Europe . |
| 25 | One answer to this problem may be found in the documents which record the surrender of their freedom by substantial peasant landholders in the eleventh century : the landlords bought their subjection for a substantial grant of land ; in return , by becoming serfs , the peasants agreed never to leave their plot of land . |
| 26 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |
| 27 | Thus the wage-labourer is a mysterious figure : but there are plenty of indications that he was no stranger in the eleventh century , still less in the twelfth . |
| 28 | But they continued to build the duomo and the many lovely churches and monasteries of the city ; , for in the eleventh and twelfth centuries , and especially in Italy , a deep religious sentiment and an active anticlericalism often lived side by side , sometimes within the same human breast . |
| 29 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 30 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |