Example sentences of "[noun prp] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marlon The Magnificent 's 1989 screen comeback A Dry White Season is about racial intolerance in South Africa . |
| 2 | All that remains of Herod the Great 's Temple is a course of huge stones where the Jews meet daily for prayer . |
| 3 | The last summer season of excavation at the palace site within ancient Caeserea , on the Israel coast just south of modern Haifa , uncovered pottery deposits earlier than previously known , which reinforce the theory that this was one of Herod the Great 's palaces . |
| 4 | Gregory the Great 's decision that English converts to Christianity might continue to use their traditional places of worship provided they were sprinkled with holy water was a revolutionary extension of clerical tolerance , with momentous implications for later missionary activity . |
| 5 | Gregory the Great 's Dialogues reveal the importance of the work of holy men in drawing the Italian countryside into the main stream of the bishops ' , the pope 's , and the townsmen 's Christianity . |
| 6 | Two formative influences on the early Middle Ages were Pope Gregory the Great 's preaching of Christianity to the Lombards and ( through Augustine of Canterbury ) to the Anglo-Saxons ; and the peregrinatio , or self-imposed exile for God 's sake , of Irish monks like St Aidan at Lindisfarne , St Columbanus in Burgundy , and St Gall in Suabia , who had a vast effect in spreading Christianity . |
| 7 | In so far as Anselm had a policy as archbishop beyond the pastoral duties outlined in Gregory the Great 's Regula Pastoralis , the defence of the Canterbury primacy formed its foundation and the legislation of his two primatial Councils were its crowning achievement . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons . |
| 9 | He also cites Lucan , Claudian , Horace , Ovid , Josephus , Pope Gregory the Great 's Dialogues and certain common medieval myths and stories . |
| 10 | Bede supplied ignorant clerics with English translations of the Creed and Lord 's Prayer , and King Alfred was concerned to provide vernacular versions of key works , such as Pope Gregory the Great 's Pastoral Care , a handbook for bishops . |
| 11 | Ivan the Terrible 's treasure/ Loch Ness monster |
| 12 | Last month , after checking with the experts in Moscow , we felt compelled to publish the disappointing news that Ivan the Terrible 's library has not after all been found , whatever Pravda and The Times might say . |
| 13 | In the 1970s a prisoner from one of the labour camps had assembled a group of volunteers , including experts on dowsing , to investigate what he claimed to have located — Ivan the Terrible 's library . |
| 14 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 15 | This is only the most recent of a number of ‘ discoveries ’ of this elusive library , which really belonged to Ivan the Terrible 's father , the Grand Duke of Moscow , Vasily III , who in turn had inherited it from his father , Ivan III , husband of Sophia Palaeologus , the niece of the last Byzantine emperor . |
| 16 | Their interest has been titillated by occasional manuscripts said to come from Ivan the Terrible 's library , which have periodically come to light in Moscow . |
| 17 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 18 | If the changes set in train in Ivan the Terrible 's reign recast secular society , the impact upon the Church was no less momentous . |
| 19 | He , as well as Anne and Joan herself , was of Plantagenet stock , being a descendant of Edward the Third 's son Lionel , through the female line . |
| 20 | Richard Duke of Gloucester , the late king 's soldierly youngest brother , was at his castle of Middleham in Yorkshire when he received news of Edward the Fourth 's death . |
| 21 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 22 | In July the Southern 's south-east , central and south-west divisions were abolished , new passenger business manager posts created and a reduced number of area manager posts ( but each with increased responsibility ) set up . |
| 23 | In 323 BC Alexander the Great 's funeral carriage was drawn by 64 mules , and much earlier , around 1000 BC , Homer had extolled mulish virtues . |
| 24 | After Alexander the Great 's victories in the near East towards the end of the fourth century B.C. , Greek became a common tongue over a wide area . |
| 25 | The drachma is the unofficial currency of southern Albania ; four new 100-drachma coins , pointedly displaying Alexander the Great 's head , and worth $1.90 , are a day 's pay for a labourer there . |
| 26 | This inscription names Athens , Corinth , Thebes and Alexander the Great 's mother Olympias as recipients . |
| 27 | The appointment of a Benedictine abbot as chief adviser to the king was sufficiently unusual to call to mind Benedict of Aniane 's position in the early years of Louis the Pious 's reign . |
| 28 | Walter Map , reflecting on the changed character of French kingship in the twelfth century , saw the period between Louis the Pious 's reign and the accession of his namesake Louis VI as one of deep depression , with 1108 marking a decisive turning-point . |
| 29 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
| 30 | He lost both office and influence at court as a result of factional enmity , but Louis the Pious 's disfavour ensured that the losses were permanent . |