Example sentences of "[noun] of the church [prep] canterbury " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was his responsibility for protecting the rights , lands , and privileges of the church of Canterbury . |
| 2 | The weight of the church of Canterbury was behind Wihtred and it may have been this which ensured his success . |
| 3 | But the possessions of the church of Canterbury were a different matter . |
| 4 | The first crisis over the possessions of the church of Canterbury had occurred in August 1093 . |
| 5 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 6 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 7 | The canons of York , however , had known since 1121 that , in the words of their chronicler , ‘ the monks of Canterbury , like blacksmiths blowing up a nearly extinct fire , recently found , or invented , certain papal privileges about the dignity and primacy of the church of Canterbury ’ . |
| 8 | Apart from his personal duty to observe the papal decrees of 1099 , his responsibility was limited to his duty to defend the rights and properties of the church of Canterbury . |
| 9 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 10 | ‘ The Coinage of Southern England 796–840 ’ , British Numismatic Journal , vol. xxxii , 1963 ; N. P. Brooks , The Early History of the Church of Canterbury , 1984 ; P. H. Sawyer , Anglo-Saxon Charters : an Annotated List and Bibliography , 1968 ; F. M. Stenton , Anglo-Saxon England , 1971 . ] |
| 11 | As to this , Eadmer gives strong hints that he failed to prevent the encroachments of powerful tenants , but the details of these aggressions are lost : they seem to have had no important effect on the general prosperity of the Church of Canterbury . |