Example sentences of "[prep] [art] clergy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 2 | The gathering momentum of clericalism under the Carolingians can be seen from the fact that while Alcuin still addressed his learning in many ways to the laity , his pupil Hrabanus Maurus , abbot of Fulda , wrote the De Institutione Clericorum , a compendium of theology and law exclusively for the clergy . |
| 3 | A private citizen , secretly acting for the clergy , had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes . |
| 4 | The humorists needed to find new caricatures for the clergy ; the older , fox-hunting parson was replaced by fanatic young curates . |
| 5 | ‘ A chance for the clergy wife to share in her own right . ’ |
| 6 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 7 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |
| 8 | The authorizing of a new ordination service for the clergy in 1550 was followed two years later by the appearance of a second Edwardian Prayer Book , and by the last months of Edward 's reign the country was officially Protestant . |
| 9 | The debate was unremarkable save , perhaps , for a paean on the virtues of golf for the clergy from Cardinal Heenan . |
| 10 | It may well be so , at least for the clergy . |
| 11 | It is indeed , particularly for the clergy . |
| 12 | Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations . |
| 13 | For the clergy to grant such a request as Edward was now making would undoubtedly require , in the archbishop 's mind , papal assent , and so he told the king . |
| 14 | The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 had prescribed regular provincial assemblies for the clergy . |
| 15 | The notion that this is attributable to having a former royal servant , Reynolds , as archbishop instead of an authoritarian idealist like Winchelsey is to overvalue the role of individuals , of Winchelsey in particular ; for all his principled vigour , Winchelsey had failed to ensure long-term security for the clergy , or much beyond transient relief even during his own pontificate . |
| 16 | [ Obituary in The Catholic Directory for the Clergy and Laity in Scotland , 1903 ; James Darragh , The Catholic Hierarchy of Scotland : a Biographical List , 1653–1985 , 1986 ; baptismal register , St Wilfrid 's , York . ] |
| 17 | He was soon in demand as a proctor in Rome , where he must have spent much of his time , acting for the clergy of the province of Canterbury and also the bishop of Exeter in 1277 , and for John Peckham [ q.v. ] , archbishop of Canterbury , between 1279 and 1282 . |
| 18 | We pray for the clergy associated with us ; for Ian at St Aubyn 's School , for Gill , ministering to the deaf community ; for Bill at the Prison ; for David at Mercer House ; for Richard and Phillip , chaplains to the university ; for Howard as he prepares to come to be curate here . |
| 19 | It just seems to be a sort of club for the clergy . ’ |
| 20 | She did not like men very much , except for the clergy , and found younger women rather alarming . |
| 21 | The use of the choir ( if the church is monastic ) is retained for the clergy while the pilgrims occupy the nave and transepts . |
| 22 | It had to contain a sanctuary for the clergy , where Mass would be said , a lay part for the congregation ( the nave ) , a forecourt ( atrium ) where postulants and unbelievers could assemble and , in later instances , a martyrium to shelter the relics of graves of the martyr to whom the church was dedicated ( XVI ) . |
| 23 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |
| 24 | The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion . |
| 25 | If the visitor was unsuccessful , influences were brought to bear from other quarters , such as the clergy , the district visitor , or some other agency with knowledge of the family . |
| 26 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |
| 27 | In other words , it might be argued that wealth , whether inherited or earned , is not sufficient to give real power , and neither are the traditional status groups such as the clergy , the military and intellectuals able to command as before . |
| 28 | In his welcoming address , the Dean of Truro wittily reiterated the close affinity between the clergy and steam engines — much closer and 3440 would have actually been inside the cathedral ! |
| 29 | Not only did this latter-day alliance of king and pope alienate much sympathy , lay and clerical , from the papacy , but it doubtless served also to drive further wedges between the clergy and the laity within England . |
| 30 | Yet both collaboration and conflict usually worked to the detriment of the church , so that at the end of Edward 's reign clerical morale and independence were seriously impaired and dangerous fissures were becoming apparent between the clergy and laity , and between Englishmen and the papacy . |