Example sentences of "[num] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward III 's attitude towards questions of tenure and inheritance suggests that he sympathized with the outlook of his peers and was prepared to encourage their aspirations even at the expense of the rights of the crown . |
| 2 | Charles was often to be invoked in the 1860s : Napoleon III 's choice of Compiègne for one of his favourite imperial palaces recalled the French nation 's ninth-century " founder " . |
| 3 | The challenge came on 6 September , when the Earl of Mar raised James III 's standard at Braemar in Scotland . |
| 4 | These lords viewed Edward III 's seizure of power with enthusiasm , believing not only that Edward might wish to wipe out the stain of the Stanhope Park campaign and the shameful peace , but also that they themselves might reap some political reward for their opposition to Mortimer in 1328 . |
| 5 | Edward III 's orchestration of support for the war was skilful and successful , yet fundamentally he depended on the co-operation of the nobility , who recruited and led the contract armies that became increasingly important as the war continued . |
| 6 | Describing Edward III 's arrival at Calais in 1359 with a sizeable army , the chronicler recalled that a large number of men , of different backgrounds and nationalities , were there waiting in the hope of being allowed to join him , some , he added significantly , wishing to advance their honour , others intent upon pillaging the kingdom of France . |
| 7 | Charles VI , now only occasionally lucid , was to remain king until his death , but in the meantime Henry would act as regent ( in effect , in control of the government ) succeeding to the crown when Charles died , a fact which was soon to be interpreted to imply English recognition of the legitimacy of Charles VI 's rule as king of France . |
| 8 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 9 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 10 | Through his other books however Bunyan had become famous when he was released under Charles II 's Act of Indulgence in 1672 and became Pastor of the Bedford Meeting . |
| 11 | The most obvious example of the significance it could have is Frederick II 's invasion of Saxony in August 1756 . |
| 12 | Frederick 's aggression disturbed George II 's position as Elector of Hanover and , because he tried to defend Maria Theresa 's treaty rights and France joined in the attack upon her , Britain found itself at war with France . |
| 13 | The same was true in Normandy , where Henry II 's concession to Rouen between 1160 and 1170 , soon to be a model for other cities across the Angevin empire , permitted internal self-government by a mayor and town council , but also allowed the duke to choose the mayor from a list of three names submitted to him by the council , and protected the ducal right to military service . |
| 14 | Ferguson , in fact , had been fiercely critical of those Dissenters who had taken advantage of James II 's Declaration of Indulgence of 1687 ; by 1690 , however , he had turned Jacobite . |
| 15 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 16 | It is a measure of Edward II 's loss of control of his family that a matter as important as his heir 's marriage could be arranged without his prior knowledge or consent . |
| 17 | And AM Alternative presented by Johnnie Walker on Thursday at 10.40am completes Radio 5 's trip to Stockton in the week-long exhibition . |
| 18 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 19 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 20 | The Cinque Ports received an admiral on the pattern of Bayonne 's admiral , created in 1295 , and ships from Bayonne brought supplies of wine , corn , flour and other victuals to Edward I 's army in Wales during March and April 1283 . |
| 21 | The creation of a fitting environment for the conduct of diplomacy and the negotiation of marriage alliances may indeed have prompted Edward I 's campaign of works at Westminster in the 1290s . |
| 22 | This bore fruit in Peter I 's Table of Ranks of 1722 ( see p. 50 ) , itself based largely on Swedish precedents , and in the subjection in Prussia of the administration and much of the economic life of the country to the needs of the army . |
| 23 | Janequin is popularly known by his imitative , or rather onomatopoeic , chansons — four of which , ‘ Le chant des oyseaux ’ , ‘ La guerre ’ ( celebrating Francis I 's victory at Marignano in 1515 ) , ‘ La chasse ’ , and ‘ L'alouette ’ , appeared in Attaingnant 's Chansons de maistre C. Janequin of 1528 . |
| 24 | Smooth , 50 's styling from Michael at Paul Nath using Redken styling and finishing products |
| 25 | Faster still was the air-speed record of 1666mph set by Col Mosolov of the USSR in 1962 , the rocket-powered X-15 's speed of 4104mph in the same year , and Jacqueline Cochran 's 1964 women 's air speed record of 1429mph in a Lockhead Starfighter . |
| 26 | Home : Sunninghill Park , Windsor , which is n't quite one 's sort of thing to be honest , and Buck House , SW1 |
| 27 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 28 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 29 | He was not Henry VIII 's ambassador to France for nothing . |
| 30 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |