Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] of charles " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , in God 's name , would Johnny reply if asked to give his opinion on the Gulf War , for instance , or the state of Charles and Diana 's marriage ? |
| 2 | Of even greater importance than the settlement of the Breton succession or the defeat of Charles of Navarre was Charles V 's skilful and successful handling of the question of the Flemish succession . |
| 3 | Here , the claim that the empire of Charles V was calculated and designed by Spain is challenged on the grounds that ‘ there was no such thing in the late fifteenth century as a Spanish collective will ’ . |
| 4 | The loyalty to the Crown of English settlers was not matched by any comparable institutional framework ; a well-informed observer on the continent of Europe might reasonably have expected that the execution of Charles I would lead to the disintegration of his empire overseas and that the Republic would be unable to assert any authority at all over emigrants whose political links with England were already so relatively weak . |
| 5 | Until the reign of Charles II mirrors were small and used as dressing glasses . |
| 6 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 7 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 8 | The first nine titles are The Wars of the Roses by J R Lander ; The Battle of Barnet and Tewkesbury by P W Hammond ; The Making of the Tudor Dynasty by Ralph Griffiths and R Thomas ; The Battle of Bosworth by Michael Bennett ; Margaret of York , Duchess of Burgundy by Christine Weightman ; Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke by Michael Bennett ; The English Civil War by Maurice Ashley ; The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of Charles I by Maurice Ashley ; and Culloden and the ‘ 45 by Jeremy Black . |
| 9 | This conflict was to lead to the civil war and the beheading of Charles I in 1642 . |
| 10 | But the reign of Charles II saw the end of the great Forest courts . |
| 11 | After the restoration of Charles II in 1660 the castle was destroyed . |
| 12 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |
| 13 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |