Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in the royal [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger sons went into the British Army , and one became a distinguished admiral in the Royal Navy . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ In reality , the royal women have a second-class place in the Royal Family , and no one more so than the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 3 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 4 | His first experience of the services was National Service in the Royal Air Force . |
| 5 | Benstede , the only son of a worthy Sussex farmer , told of his vocation to the priesthood , his interest in medicine and his rapid promotion in the royal service . |
| 6 | In the hunt DOUBLE Echo , easy winner of the Crawley Warren Handicap at York on Saturday , will make a quick reappearance in the Royal Hunt Cup next week , for which the gelding has picked up a 7lbs penalty . |
| 7 | He served as a regular soldier in the Royal Artillery for five years , visiting Malaysia , Hong Kong and Singapore . |
| 8 | Probably this situation , and the example of his father , who had risen in the king 's service from humble origins to the earldom of Essex , was the spur to his long career in the royal administration . |
| 9 | Requests for a place as midshipman , or if that was impossible , as a captain 's servant with prospects of future advancement to that rank or that of master 's mate , another stepping stone to commissioned rank in the Royal Navy , were much more frequent than requests for aid in freeing a man from the press . |
| 10 | In 1903 she married John William Thompson , a post-office clerk and telegraphist from the Isle of Wight , son of Henry Thompson , formerly a chief petty officer in the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | The anti-Roman faction in the royal household seized power and totally upset the careful arrangements made and fostered by Rome . |
| 12 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 13 | José Puig de la Bellacasa returns to Madrid to fulfil an important post in the Royal Household , and I wish them many years of good health and happiness in their own country . |
| 14 | It was a potent warning of a profound upheaval in the Royal Family — and , most importantly , in the life of Princess Diana . |
| 15 | M. Vial , for some years Professor of Veterinary Medicine in the Royal School of Lyons , and of Comparative Anatomy at Montpellier , a gentleman well-known for his anatomical skill and knowledge in every part of this Art , is appointed Professor to the College ’ . |
| 16 | And her once proud position in the royal line , between her husband and father-in-law , is now an empty space . |
| 17 | Apart from the destruction of the Channel ports , the greatest amusement of 1939 for English listeners lay in the increasingly desperate claims of the German radio to have sunk the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal , the only modern carrier in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | The following month he received a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force , soon afterwards being promoted air commodore . |
| 19 | Both vessels moored alongside the main jetty in the Royal Navy dockyard , and Eden was there to greet his guests on what he hoped would be an historic visit . |
| 20 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 21 | Sharpe suppressed an urge to kick His Royal Highness in the royal arse . |