Example sentences of "[prep] saints ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 2 | In the orchestration of this criticism , and in the curbing of local aristocrats who were quite unrestrained by royal power , no single factor was more important than the veneration of saints ' shrines at a local monastery . |
| 3 | The subject of saints ' days poses different questions altogether . |
| 4 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 5 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 6 | He described the celebration of saints ' days and festivals as manifestations of the ‘ splendid outward dignity of our religion , forcible witnesses of ancient truth , provocations to the exercise of all piety , shadows of our endless felicity in heaven … wherein they which can not be drawn to hearken unto what we teach may only by looking upon that we do , in a manner read whatsoever we believe ’ . |
| 7 | The proof of this is to be found in the calendar of saints ' days for the Canterbury community which he had so offensively purged . |
| 8 | Literacy among the children of noblemen was increasing and secular literature based on the spoken language of Muscovy began to rival the traditional fare of saints ' lives written in Church Slavonic . |
| 9 | Works attributed to him ( either by himself or by scribes ) include allegories in verse ( such as the Char d'Orgueil , or the Passion , in which Christ is a lover-knight who , wearing the arms of his squire Adam , fights Belial in order to rescue his beloved , Mankind ) , several poems on the Virgin Mary , a number of saints ' lives in verse , some lively sermons in verse , and the Plainte d'Amour , a powerful satire on corruption , which may well have been inspired by the Bull Exivi de paradiso ( 1312 ) . |
| 10 | The same wills also list the liturgical objects — crosses , plates , censers , bells , candle-sticks — that furnished these nobles ' chapels , and the reliquaries made of precious metals and precious stones and housing fragments of saints ' bones , hair and beards , or even the names of holy men , which the rich and powerful kept in their treasuries , or even wore around their necks . |
| 11 | Evidence for political affairs comes in a variety of genres : some apparently unlikely sources — theological treatises , for instance , or accounts of the translations ( that is , the carryings to new locations ) of saints ' relics , and collections of miracle-stories — turn out to hold a good deal of information about ( and reactions to ) war and politics . |
| 12 | One of two surviving copies of a list of saints ' resting places in England was produced in New Minster Winchester in Cnut 's time . |
| 13 | Lads like Saints ' Gary Connolly and Alan Hunte have matured tremendously and have great potential . |
| 14 | And then Skerrett was shown the red card and Platt was sin-binned along with Saints ' Nickle after a flare-up . |
| 15 | Bluot 's baked lavish cakes for saints ' days , Easter and Sun-days . |
| 16 | In contrast , Monkou continues to prosper in Saints ' mini-revival and is hopeful his performances will eventually bring long-distance international recognition from Holland . |
| 17 | Wigan had no answer to Saints ' seven-try blitz . |
| 18 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |
| 19 | And , in the 67th minute , again after good work by Saints ' forwards , a clever combination of passes between skipper Shane Cooper and scrum-half Jonathan Griffiths put centre Garry Connolly over . |
| 20 | The British record signing , given a rousing reception by Saints ' fans before kick off , admitted afterwards that Monkou had left him feeling the pressure of a marked man . |
| 21 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |