Example sentences of "in the royal [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a task which some of the more well-bred staff in the royal household find frankly distasteful — the private secretary to the Prince of Wales , Sir John Riddell , reputedly once told a producer from Thames Television , working on a fortieth birthday tribute to the Prince , that ‘ dealing with you people is like having one 's private parts slowly nibbled by rats ’ — but they go along with it because the deferential attitude of most of the media is the means of engaging popular support for the ins of monarchy . |
| 2 | ‘ But the physician who works in the royal household said that you wanted to see me immediately . |
| 3 | Although the thin soils of the South Downs were less productive than some — Lambourn hundred atop the Berkshire Downs was very similar — rich men were few , mainly because two leading landowners , the earl of Arundel and Lord Bergavenny , were assessed separately as peers , and a third , Sir John Gage , was taxed in the royal household as Comptroller of Calais.6 |
| 4 | The anti-Roman faction in the royal household seized power and totally upset the careful arrangements made and fostered by Rome . |
| 5 | The significance of the Tudor reforms in the royal Household is not very easily assessed . |
| 6 | Some of these , like the reforms in the royal Household , were largely a matter of tidying up existing arrangements . |
| 7 | Food and lodging at court for an officer and his servants was surprisingly valuable in spite of all attempts at economy in the royal Household . |
| 8 | This interlude , however , does not mark a phase of anticlericalism on the part of the king , for during it clergy , like Kilsby , were prominent in the royal household and council and in lesser offices of state . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jealousy , first of William Lamb , second Viscount Melbourne , and then , more seriously , of Prince Albert , whom the queen married in 1840 , led to serious tensions in the royal household . |
| 11 | Surviving this plot , Richard was retained in the royal household and in 1242 served as a banneret with the king 's army in Poitou . |
| 12 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1343 Archbishop Zouche of York at first resisted the king 's nominee for the deanery of York because Cardinal Talleyrand had already been papally provided ; when the king 's judges found against him , Zouche acquiesced in the royal candidate , rejected the cardinal and endured papal excommunication for the last four years of his life . |
| 15 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 16 | In that same year he returned from studying on the Continent and began to exhibit work in the Royal Academy and with the New English and the London Group . |
| 17 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 18 | On either side of the thrones the pictures of George III ( 1760–1820 ) and Queen Charlotte are by Harrington Mann , copied from the original paintings by Reynolds that now hang in the Royal Academy . |
| 19 | The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery is once again holding A Salon Des Refuses of work which was not hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . |
| 20 | In the Royal Academy 's recent Pop Art exhibition , you were represented by eight earlier pictures and a set of your recent Self-Portraits manipulated by the Quantel paintbox . |
| 21 | The Gamblers hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1954 . |
| 22 | From 1920 to 1945 he showed in the Royal Academy summer exhibition in all but four years , being elected ARA in 1934 and RA in 1942 . |
| 23 | He was admitted as a probationer in the Royal Academy on 7 January 1848 and enrolled in the painting school there on 31 March 1848 . |
| 24 | Do you like the notion of being in the Royal Academy ? ’ |
| 25 | Altogether it was a little disturbing — the man , the woman , the Omar Khayyam-like details — or like a Victorian problem picture in the Royal Academy . |
| 26 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 27 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |
| 28 | The Peterborough chronicler Hugh Candidus tells a different tale , stating that in the days of Abbot Ælfsige of Peterborough ( 1006 – 42 ) the Ramsey monks were accused before the king " for a certain reason " , and that in the royal presence it was decided that the monastery should be destroyed and its monks expelled . |
| 29 | In whatever form they existed the documents continued to be known , for they were mentioned to Anselm by Osbern in 1093 , and examined in the royal court in 1109 in the presence of at least one bishop who had been present also in 1072 . |
| 30 | But besides being improbable in itself , it can scarcely be true , for Eadmer had mentioned that they had been produced in the royal court after Anselm 's death in 1109 . |