Example sentences of "[num] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers ' history , however , had little basis in reality and the exclusion of women was by no means settled practice before the fourteenth century in the great fiefs of France ; indeed , Edward III 's title to Gascony derived from a woman , Eleanor , wife of Henry 11 . |
| 2 | She had been married at Henry III 's instigation to Henry , son of Richard of Cornwall , in 1269 . |
| 3 | Leo XIII 's approach to social and economic questions was qualified and priests were ordered to submit to their bishops on social and political matters . |
| 4 | On the face of it , Louis VI 's claim to be lord of all bishops not already under effective protection looks a modest attempt to regain only part of the Carolingian inheritance . |
| 5 | In fact , experience so far suggests that MDC 's approach to urban regeneration has been less cavalier than LDDC 's , reflecting its concern to minimise the social costs of development to its residents and to avoid projects likely to prejudice other areas of the city . |
| 6 | MDC 's approach to housing development in its extended area acknowledges the need for social housing provision . |
| 7 | Moreover , the fact remains that despite its recent record on public participation , MDC 's accountability to elected authorities and local communities continues to be at its own discretion . |
| 8 | One of his secretaries Colville tells us that Churchill 's attitudes to clergymen had a touch of King Henry II 's attitude to Thomas Becket . |
| 9 | Most of them were paltry , but a few made plain that Alexander II 's attitude to the army differed from that of his father . |
| 10 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 11 | Aleksi II , Patriarch of All Russia , accusing the Roman Catholic Church of " expansionism " had refused Pope John Paul II 's invitation to a Synod on Europe held in November-December 1991 [ see p. 38691 ] . |
| 12 | The same was true in Normandy , where Henry II 's concession to Rouen between 1160 and 1170 , soon to be a model for other cities across the Angevin empire , permitted internal self-government by a mayor and town council , but also allowed the duke to choose the mayor from a list of three names submitted to him by the council , and protected the ducal right to military service . |
| 13 | Next to Windsor Castle , Royalty & Empire celebrates two magnificent Royal occasions in the lives of two great British Queens — Queen Victoria 's 60th anniversary , her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and in 1992 the 40th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II 's accession to the throne . |
| 14 | With Henry II 's accession to the English throne in 1154 , the king-duke 's chancery operated over Western France from the Pyrenees to the Canche , and set an example to all other princes , not least to the kings of France . |
| 15 | Western countries led by France were said in some reports to be fearful of the destabilization of Morocco should a UN-organized vote go against King Hassan II 's claim to Western Sahara . |
| 16 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 17 | And AM Alternative presented by Johnnie Walker on Thursday at 10.40am completes Radio 5 's trip to Stockton in the week-long exhibition . |
| 18 | Mr Harrower underlined Group 4 's commitment to the Government 's policy of seeking a fresh approach to penal policy and practice by encouraging competition , diversity and value for money . |
| 19 | CRUCIBLE , Channel 4 's answer to Horizon , is being scotched at a time when the new TV channel is capturing only 4 per cent of the viewing market in the UK . |
| 20 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 21 | The events of 936 and the imperial coronation of 962 bore witness to Otto I 's determination to be Charlemagne redivivus . |
| 22 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 23 | In a letter of 25 January 1620 Sir John Chamberlain remarks a very significant event in the contemporary cross-dressing controversy : James I 's instruction to the clergy to suppress women doing it . |
| 24 | Moreover , Article 25 's application to sea waybills is less problematic because waybills are generally issued by the actual ocean carriers or their agents . |
| 25 | Instead we get the same sort of smooth hump which constitutes slit 1 's contribution to B. The result is scarcely surprising . |
| 26 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 27 | The Shah announced the divorce on the radio in many ways it was reminiscent of King Edward VII 's speech to the British people when he announced he had decided to marry Mrs Simpson . |
| 28 | He had such success that , late in 1758 , the new chief minister of France , Lieut-General Etienne François Choiseul-Amboise , Duc de Choiseul , Louis XV 's answer to George II 's Pitt , decided to revive his predecessor Belleisle 's plan for the invasion of England . |
| 29 | Henry VIII 's inattention to business was a constant irritation to his servants . |
| 30 | He was not Henry VIII 's ambassador to France for nothing . |