Example sentences of "[adj] [unc] reign " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spicer 's tiles and fittings are made by hand from clay , according to methods first used by craftsmen during Richard III 's reign . |
| 2 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 3 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 4 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |
| 5 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 6 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 7 | These devices protected the integrity of the inheritance , and both the patronage of the crown and the wealth won from war enabled many inheritances to grow larger in the course of Edward III 's reign . |
| 8 | There was therefore a group of ‘ aliens ’ among the king 's familiares which long outlived the political turmoil of Henry III 's reign . |
| 9 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |
| 10 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 11 | Although lay delegates had been tried before — in the 1290s , for example — the frequency of their presence in six out of the last eleven assemblies of Edward III 's reign added a new ( and continuing ) dimension to convocation . |
| 12 | Practically the whole of this vast transformation was effected between 1750 and 1850 , and , so far as the open fields alone were concerned , in the sixty years of George III 's reign . |
| 13 | Like their Republican successors in the 1930's , the agrarian reformers of Charles III 's reign were obsessed by the violent social situation and the agrarian unemployment on the great latifundia and dehesas ( scrub pasture ) of Andalusia and Estremadura . |
| 14 | ( d. 1282 ) , royal minister and an important landowner in Yorkshire and Northumberland , was constable of Tickhill and Knaresborough at the end of the barons ' wars of Henry III 's reign . |
| 15 | His first appointment as a royal justice came at the end of Henry III 's reign . |
| 16 | However , since Osred 's reign began in 705 , no further dislocation of Northumbrian chronology occurs at this point . |
| 17 | Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background , therefore , of Osred 's reign . |
| 18 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 19 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 20 | The paradox of Pius XII 's reign was the acceptance of chunks of a new model — the encouragement of modern biblical scholarship in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu , of participant liturgical reform in Mediator Dei , of an increasingly multi-faceted lay apostolate — together with slightly ineffectual but still painful attempts to silence Congar and many others ( the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin most of all ) , the signing of highly reactionary concordats with Spain and Portugal , and an even greater stress on Marian devotion ( culminating not only in the definition of the Assumption in 1950 but in the ‘ Marian Year ’ of 1954 ) . |
| 21 | So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . |
| 22 | Our dependence on Suger 's Life as the chief source for Louis VI 's reign makes his interpretation inescapable for us , as it was not for his contemporaries . |
| 23 | If Louis VI 's reign was decisive for the revitalization of the chancery , his son 's saw the dramatic extension of royal visitations across the realm . |
| 24 | Louis VI 's reign began inauspiciously , with the refusal of some great princes to do homage , on the grounds that it was not customary . |
| 25 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs . |