Example sentences of "[art] king [unc] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
| 2 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 3 | While the pope was thus able to tax the English church only by the will of the king , the king 's taxation was no longer restrained by canon law or at the mercy of the pope or — to any great extent — of an archbishop . |
| 4 | The King 's criticism was believed to be in response to recent Saudi demands that he publicly apologize for Jordan 's position in the Gulf war . |
| 5 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 6 | Next to the open balcony in the King 's coach was a handsome smoking room , supplied with central table and four armchairs . |
| 7 | The King 's sister was white-faced and tight-lipped , obviously finding it difficult to control her anger . |
| 8 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 9 | The interior of the King 's saloon was of satinwood , inlaid with ivory , while the Queen 's day room was in white enamel , with delicate shades of pink and blue in the decorations . |
| 10 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 11 | The king 's head-rest was also made of ivory and the same material served as an inlay to embellish his ebony bed , stools and chair . |
| 12 | The King 's message was sharp and cool : he was both sad and angry that his ‘ beloved clerk , Hugh Corbett , has failed to report any progress on our business at Godstowe ’ . |
| 13 | A Phocaean aristocrat happened to be the guest of the king of the Ligurian tribe of the Segobrigi when the king 's daughter was made to choose a husband at a banquet . |
| 14 | After his death in 1151 , the leading place in the king 's council was taken once more by the royal chancellor , Hugh de Champfleuri , bishop of Soissons . |
| 15 | The baronial leaders were incensed by these continued tergiversations : when the king 's ordinance was read at St Paul 's in London , there was uproar , and the terms of Edward 's proclamation issued on 25 June showed that he realized the extent and intensity of hostility to the Forest . |
| 16 | In part the attempt by the Norfolk justices to appropriate canon law matters to the king 's competence was all of a piece with other measures which the king and his judges were taking to suppress rival jurisdictions and to reduce all justice within the realm to the crown . |
| 17 | After 1902 the large head-dress badge under the King 's Crown was produced in white metal , with a cross of the Order of the Bath superimposed on a star , similar to that of the Order of the Garter . |
| 18 | After 1902 the large head-dress badge under the King 's Crown was produced in white metal , with a cross of the Order of the Bath superimposed on a star , similar to that of the Order of the Garter . |
| 19 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 20 | Draped over the king 's coffin was an ANC flag . |
| 21 | The King 's Majesty was wrath , he declared . |
| 22 | The interior decoration and furnishing of the King 's bedroom was of weathered sycamore , with brass-finished copper metalwork , and copper and silver electric light fittings . |
| 23 | Benjamin explained : ‘ The King 's father was murdered when James was but a boy . |
| 24 | He would need to confess them , be shrived , for even to think about the King 's death was treason . |
| 25 | ‘ I think , ’ Corbett replied carefully , ‘ that the King 's death was mysterious and worthy of study . ’ |
| 26 | From Waddo 's point of view the king 's death was a disaster ; too far from court to be involved in safeguarding Chilperic 's heir , which was arranged by Fredegund , he was liable to be excluded from the ruling group in the early years of Chlothar II . |
| 27 | Chris Foote Wood , now Liberal Democrat leader of Wear Valley District Council , was an 11-year-old schoolboy when the King 's death was announced at morning assembly . |
| 28 | The relationship protected Ford from some of the more severe consequences of his own activities and allowed him to prolong his plotting long after the king 's cause was effectively lost . |
| 29 | Such propaganda could only be successful , however , if it corresponded to some genuine feeling both amongst the commons and in the country generally that the king 's cause was just and worthy of support . |
| 30 | It has been said that he provided no leadership and lacked control of the episcopate , and it is clear that he waited on events in 1326–7 , only casting his lot with Isabella and Mortimer when the king 's cause was obviously lost . |