Example sentences of "from [art] twelfth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working-class Protestants who totter back from the Twelfth field , obviously drunk but still marching behind a ‘ Total Abstinence Lodge ’ banner , will continue to be annoyed by the evangelical ideologues , but will respect the fact that the evangelicals ' hearts are in the right place . |
| 2 | The use of coinage was also abandoned in Russia from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century , and in Japan from the tenth to the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | Little wonder then that the Forest system was heartily detested by all classes of the king 's subjects , and that from the twelfth century onward a bitter and determined struggle was carried on between Crown and people for its abolition . |
| 4 | The sword hardly varied in form from the twelfth to the fifteenth century : it generally had a two-edged blade , about 40 inches in length . |
| 5 | Similar results were expected from the three polychrome wood statuettes from the twelfth dynasty ( 1938–1759 BC ) of a clothed lady , nude concubine and robed portrait of the scribe Seneb , but only the lady sold , for $430,000 ( est. $200,000–300,000 ) to an American collector . |
| 6 | Seventy early Buddhist paintings from the twelfth to thirteenth centuries , found at the turn of the century by the Russian Imperial Geographical Society in the burial stupa of Khara Khoto on the silk route , have been loaned by the Hermitage Museum . |
| 7 | In Europe from the twelfth century onward , feudal society was affected by the gradual transformation of local markets into permanent towns , with important implications for the emergence of a fourth stratum . |
| 8 | When the forest was cleared , mostly from the twelfth century onwards , the small fields were enclosed directly from the wild state . |
| 9 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 10 | They descended from hereditary riding-bailiffs of the abbots of Ramsey by a serjeanty dating from the twelfth century . |
| 11 | Part was published in the 1939 work Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries , but there remains a mass of data and comments written by Beveridge himself and his many research assistants . |
| 12 | S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 13 | It dates from the twelfth century and reflects the essence of Norman power and strength in architecture ( 282 ) . |
| 14 | There are stone manor houses from the twelfth century onwards , like that at Boothby Pagnell , Lincolnshire ( c. 1180 ) and the early brick house , Little Wenham Hall , Suffolk ( c. 1270 ) . |
| 15 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |
| 16 | It dates from the twelfth century . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 's probably a reincarnation of someone , ’ Robert went on — 'some Islamic character from the twelfth century . |
| 18 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 19 | Writers from the twelfth century onwards like Bernard of Clairvaux , Thomas Gallus and Bishop Grosseteste stressed the role of the will , the affective faculty , in this knowledge which was the desired wisdom of felt understanding . |
| 20 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 21 | The evidence of wills and bishops ' registers points to the prevalence of recluses in society from the twelfth century onwards : men and women who led solitary contemplative lives of prayer , often in cells attached to churches and chapels but who were also available to counsel those who sought help . |
| 22 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |