Example sentences of "'s reign " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
| 2 | Wardle , Appleyard , Close , Lowson , Trueman and Illingworth entered cricket in Yardley 's reign and all had great respect for his tactical ingenuity and his benevolent , Gower-style leadership although they were to be critical later . |
| 3 | The arrival of the atheist Bolsheviks as the new élite merely accentuated the cultural schism between the peasantry and the ruling strata that had existed since Peter the Great 's reign . |
| 4 | There was much national rejoicing at the jubilee to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II 's reign since 1952 . |
| 5 | Spicer 's tiles and fittings are made by hand from clay , according to methods first used by craftsmen during Richard III 's reign . |
| 6 | So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . |
| 7 | The Eighties , clearly , were the Thatcher years , But Nanny 's reign looks set to end in tears . |
| 8 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 9 | Queen Anne 's reign was a sophisticated time to be building . |
| 10 | The Hortons added on to the mill house , and during Elizabeth 's reign they made extensive gabled additions which can be seen best on the east façade . |
| 11 | Here stood an ancient pele tower with a half-timbered Tudor house attached , owned from King Stephen 's reign onwards by de Biddics , Daldens , Colleys and Bowes . |
| 12 | During Queen Anne 's reign , the Continental and Maritime schools in British strategic thought clashed over the Second and Third Pillars . |
| 13 | It suits the powers-that-be to draw a distinction between the livid chiaroscuro of Mrs Thatcher 's reign and the plain , cool daylight of the current regime . |
| 14 | 1 Samuel 4 renews the story of the conflict between the two peoples , and that rivalry remains a major feature of the account of Saul 's reign , and does not come to an end till victories won by David , described in 2 Samuel 5 . |
| 15 | It occurs in the account of the chaotic part of David 's reign when his own son Absalom is fighting to usurp the throne . |
| 16 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 17 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 18 | That takes us very far away from the little local Scottish drama ; and it is in this context that Mary 's reign should be understood . |
| 19 | It seeks only to open up the lines of enquiry sketched out here ; and it does so in the hope that by bringing them into the debate , it may contribute towards a fuller and more objective assessment of Mary 's reign — and Mary 's misfortunes . |
| 20 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 21 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 22 | In response to a petition by the ‘ prelates , earls , barons and commonalty of the realm ’ , Edward II was compelled to agree that the Forest perambulations made in his father 's reign should be enforced in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Forest , provided that : |
| 23 | But many districts which had secured their freedom from the Forest law during Edward II 's reign were once more made subject to it . |
| 24 | In Staffordshire the forest of Cannock had virtually ceased to exist by the end of Elizabeth 's reign , and in Kinver Forest only Iverley Hay remained in the hands of the Crown , and even there the deer had disappeared , and the woods for the most part had been cut down . |
| 25 | His lack of taste and the pictorial journalese of his style as a painter merely reflect the galloping decline of the traditional crafts during the Queen 's reign . |
| 26 | The book , signed with the pseudonym Manicamp , after a character in Dumas 's Vicomte de Bragelonne but in reality by Stephane Denis , a political journalist , is a fictional account of the end of Mr Mitterrand 's reign and the welter of intrigue surrounding it . |
| 27 | One of them broke the ban on Boris Pasternak 's work by publishing Dr Zhivago , a clear indication of the more permissive atmosphere of Gorbachev 's reign . |
| 28 | Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign . |
| 29 | The Arts : Mementoes from the royal attic Fascinating insights are to be found among the bric-a-brac in the V&A 's celebration of the Queen 's reign , says Leslie Geddes-Brown |
| 30 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |