Example sentences of "on [art] king [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on the King 's suggestion to MacDonald that the Cabinet considered including in the Speech from the Throne in October 1930 a plea to ‘ all sections of parliament ’ to ‘ unite ’ in treating unemployment ‘ on national as distinct from party lines ’ . |
| 2 | Edward I nominated magnates like Hugh Despenser the elder , who was absent from England on the king 's service during a great part of the ten years 1297–1307 when he was Justice of the Forest south of Trent . |
| 3 | ‘ Herbage ’ was often included in the warden 's farm ; that is , the dues collected for cattle and horses on the king 's forest pastures . |
| 4 | In April 1244 he was elected Bishop of Chichester on the king 's nomination , but Boniface of Savoy , the Archbishop of Canterbury , rejected him as ignorant , and declared his election void ; his rejection was confirmed by Innocent IV . |
| 5 | In December 1923 Mr Stanley Baldwin lost his majority , but remained Prime Minister for five weeks over Christmas until the Liberals and Labour combined to defeat him on the King 's Speech . |
| 6 | At the close of the service , while Charles kneeled in prayer , Leo placed a diadem on the king 's head and pronounced : ‘ God grant life and victory to Charles the Augustus , crowned by God great and pacific Emperor of the Romans ’ . |
| 7 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 8 | Two years before , on the King 's birthday , he had written , ‘ a venerable and excellent monarch — may his virtues be emulated by succeeding Kings . ’ |
| 9 | Why was he ( and it must have been him ) so quick in sending off horsemen early on the morning of 19th March to check on the King 's safety ? |
| 10 | But instead , in a table filled with knights of his name , Nicholas was placed on the King 's right , and Nicholas ( Conella ) Morabit , on his left . |
| 11 | But now , attending on the King 's mother , she might be expected to stay tonight at the Palace . |
| 12 | Occasionally he saw Primaflora who , from serving Carlotta , had turned her training to attendance on the King 's mother . |
| 13 | Stukeley in his diary tells us how he invited King Vortigern to be entertained there and on the king 's arrival he introduced him to Rowena , his beautiful daughter , who presented Vortigern with a gold wassail cup . |
| 14 | Over the next few months we talked and prayed about it and in the Spring we submitted applications for staffing on the King 's Lodge Base at Nuneaton , starting in April 1993 . |
| 15 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 16 | Although often absent from his diocese on the King 's business , Andrewes proved a conscientious bishop at a time when many bishops took their duties lightly . |
| 17 | Grave and reserved at the vicious court of his drunken , slobbering but affable father , he at first resented but then became emotionally dependent on the King 's ebullient favourite the Duke of Buckingham . |
| 18 | On the all-important matter of holding a Council he was prepared to wait on the king 's convenience for a long time : he was never one to underestimate the needs of secular government . |
| 19 | It is likely that William of Warelwast revealed an even more outrageous decision : if Anselm did not return to England on the king 's terms , the king would seize his lands and revenues . |
| 20 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 21 | The city mob took Edward 's flight as the signal for an orgy of destruction in which the unpopular Treasurer , the Bishop of Exeter , was lynched and the tablet commemorating the Ordinances which had been removed from St Paul 's on the king 's orders in 1322 was replaced . |
| 22 | Eventually the lot fell on the King 's daughter , Hesione , who was taken to the sea shore on the appointed day and tied to a rock . |
| 23 | He also became recorder of York , an appointment made on the king 's recommendation but probably owing more to Gloucester . |
| 24 | The same memorandum shows that these measures , costing £3,670 , absorbed all Edward IV 's cash reserves , and this is likely to be the origin of Mancini 's story of the Woodvilles ' raid on the king 's treasury . |
| 25 | This was in part an act of Yorkist pietas , since those who had suffered on the king 's behalf are particularly remembered , but it was also a plea for political continuity . |
| 26 | While dependence on the King 's pleasure may have been nominally less secure than the other forms of tenure , in practice there was probably not much difference between them . |
| 27 | The Earl of Fife , who had the hereditary right to place the crown on the king 's head , was in captivity in England . |
| 28 | A second meeting between Sovereign and Prime Minister ( on the King 's initiative ) took place on 16 November . |
| 29 | On the king 's behalf in 1276 he urged Llewellyn , Lord of Snowdonia , to acknowledge Edward as his feudal lord , and in February 1277 he excommunicated Llewellyn for refusing an offer of mediation . |
| 30 | In 1291 Archbishop Romeyn of York was to be imprisoned and fined 4000 marks for excommunicating the bailiffs of Bishop Bek of Durham while the bishop was abroad on the king 's service . |