Example sentences of "to take [art] oath " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Justice of the Forest was ordered to take the oath of fealty from his woodwards , |
| 2 | Mr Lindo was next to take the oath . |
| 3 | Wells was requested to take the oath on whether he had actually made a statement , as the police seemed to have no record of it . |
| 4 | Like Edward Boyle , but for very different reasons , he refused to take the oath but chose simply to affirm on being admitted to the Privy Council . |
| 5 | Within six weeks all abbots , prelates and vassals were to take the oath . |
| 6 | He then set out in a violent storm and heavy snow for Fort William , where he hoped to take the oath in the presence of the local commander of government troops . |
| 7 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 8 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 9 | The six whose names have been put forward for election have to be informed before election night , as they have to agree to take on this responsible job and they must be there on the night to take the oath before the close of the meeting . |
| 10 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 11 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 12 | Interestingly , witnesses are not required to take the oath as in normal civil or criminal court proceedings . |
| 13 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 14 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 15 | As part of the process of organizing Nova Scotia as a colony more seriously than before , the Acadians were pressed to take the oath of allegiance to George II in accordance with the Treaty of Utrecht , and those who refused were deported to the French settlement in Louisiana . |
| 16 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 17 | who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown under the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 , on the ground that he was an atheist and the oath would be meaningless . |
| 18 | When he was nominated for alderman in January 1642 , there was some trouble about his unwillingness to take the oath of supremacy and allegiance , but he was eventually sworn in . |
| 19 | I always remember him turning to Thomas Cromwell about the trial of an abbot who had refused to take the Oath of Supremacy . |
| 20 | You promised to take the oath and divide your winnings with me for a secret ! ’ |
| 21 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , refused to take the oath , saying that he was under the command only of the C.-in-C. of the CIS armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov . |
| 22 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 23 | The most powerful feudal lord in Germany , Adolf , archbishop of Cologne — the last to take the oath to the young Frederick and the first to break it — wanted Richard I. The diocese had strong ties with England and there were important commercial considerations . |
| 24 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 25 | I re-capped ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to — the Queen . ’ |
| 26 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 27 | Whatever the gentleman in question might feel about the Hanoverian monarchy and the Jacobite cause he could , in the circumstances , hardly refuse to take the oaths to Government and cast his vote for his friend in a subsequent election . |
| 28 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 29 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 30 | All foresters had to take an oath in the local Forest court , in the presence of the verderers , to perform their duties conscientiously , to keep the Forest law , and not to oppress the forest landowners and the other inhabitants of the forest . |