Example sentences of "[unc] marriage to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 2 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 3 | Philip Augustus 's marriage to Ingeborg of Denmark had been made in the hope that the Danish king , who was pro-Welf would support him against the English . |
| 4 | A few months before Margaret 's marriage to Philip of Burgundy Charles V had also gained an important victory in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 5 | What Mulliner 's book does not represent adequately is English church music during the agonizing years 1534–58 which saw Henry VIII 's pseudo-Reformation and dissolution of those musical strongholds , the monasteries ; the Protestant triumph and English liturgy of 1549 ; the Catholic reaction and Mary 's marriage to Philip of Spain ( who brought with him during 1554–5 his ‘ Flemish chapel ’ including Philipp de Monte and his organist Cabezon ) ; and the accession of Elizabeth I. Most of Taverner 's church music was probably written before this period , during the years 1526–30 when he was organist and choirmaster of Cardinal College ( now Christ Church ) , Oxford ; it includes eight Masses , three Magnificats , as well as shorter pieces . |
| 6 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 7 | Personally , I tend to see Malcolm 's marriage to Margaret as part of a process by which our king invited in a team of management consultants from the Continent in order to alienate the land even further from the people . |
| 8 | 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 . |