Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
| 2 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 3 | The marriage between Robert the Pious 's daughter and the count of Nevers brought obvious political gain to the king because it strengthened the royal hold upon Burgundy ; the count on the other hand gained only temporary advantage , and subsequent generations in Nevers made little of their royal connection . |
| 4 | Pippin " fled " back to Aquitaine , and welcomed an unexpected ally : Bernard , who had lost forever any chance of recovering great influence at Louis the Pious 's court . |
| 5 | Walter Map , reflecting on the changed character of French kingship in the twelfth century , saw the period between Louis the Pious 's reign and the accession of his namesake Louis VI as one of deep depression , with 1108 marking a decisive turning-point . |
| 6 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 7 | The ‘ Lamuts ’ ( Even Tungus ) of the Okhotsk region fought hard to preserve their freedom , while in Kamchatka the Itelmens , whose conquest did not begin until the early eighteenth century , were subjected to genocidal slaughter by troops using the up-to-date weapons of Peter the Great 's military machine : muskets and hand grenades . |
| 8 | The appointment of a Benedictine abbot as chief adviser to the king was sufficiently unusual to call to mind Benedict of Aniane 's position in the early years of Louis the Pious 's reign . |
| 9 | In the reigns of Charles the Bald 's predecessors , the count 's first main function was to look after royal estates ( fisc-lands ) and royal income ( for instance from tolls and fines ) within his county . |
| 10 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 11 | Robert Anthony , for Sim , 33 , of Portobello Road , London , told the High Court in Edinburgh the accused 's cousin had borrowed £5,000 from moneylenders in London but disappeared when he was unable to repay it . |
| 12 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 13 | Richard Duke of Gloucester , the late king 's soldierly youngest brother , was at his castle of Middleham in Yorkshire when he received news of Edward the Fourth 's death . |
| 14 | We are back in the area of Peter the Great 's reforms . |
| 15 | If the changes set in train in Ivan the Terrible 's reign recast secular society , the impact upon the Church was no less momentous . |
| 16 | However , in January 1948 Don Juan had been advised by American representatives to mend his fences with Franco , and in August he accepted an invitation to meet Franco on board the latter 's yacht , the Azor . |
| 17 | The point is important , because much of the modern secondary literature on Charles the Bald 's reign , and on the Carolingians generally , has depicted the aristocracy as greedy and boorish , incapable of sharing the higher aspirations of kings or clergy , lacking any sense of public interest . |
| 18 | Word of Peter the Great 's skilful physicians had spread throughout Europe and Asia , and in 1715 the Emperor of China sent an Ambassador to Peter asking that an able physician be sent to his palace at Peking . |
| 19 | On paper , they were the most significant addition to the structure of Russian local government since Catherine the Great 's reconstruction of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 20 | One aspect of Peter the Great 's reforming energy in the early eighteenth century , which had an indirect effect on the population dynamics of Siberia , was his massive use of convict and forced labour on his gigantic construction projects in European Russia , in particular the building of St Petersburg , the digging of canals and the fortification of new ports and harbours , like Rogervik , on the Baltic . |
| 21 | He , as well as Anne and Joan herself , was of Plantagenet stock , being a descendant of Edward the Third 's son Lionel , through the female line . |
| 22 | ‘ We ’ , the provincial society , display all the loose-end symptoms of Peter the Great 's reforms — though Dostoevsky 's overt theorizing about Peter gets left behind in the notebooks . |
| 23 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
| 24 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 25 | Because Swans have belonged to the crown since Henry the eight 's day Dines was prosecuted for criminal damage to property … rather than animal cruelty which carries a lesser penalty . |
| 26 | On the facts of Lawrence the accused 's conviction for theft was upheld even though the victim intended to transfer property . |