Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | They have vigorously contested in court the Metropolitan 's assertion that the Turkish government was tardy in pursuing its claim . |
| 32 | When I was locked hidden away in Suleiman the Magnificent 's harem , I satisfied every one of his houris but , as I keep saying , that 's another story . ] |
| 33 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 34 | Major works by Rubens , Rembrandt and Van Dyck have come from Frederick the Great 's private gallery at Sanssouci and from the Berlin and Potsdam museums , the Washington National Gallery and the Metropolitan . |
| 35 | The so-called Annals of St-Bertin ( so called simply because one manuscript survived later in the Middle Ages at the monastery of St-Bertin ) were produced in Charles the Bald 's kingdom , more or less contemporaneously with the events they record , throughout Charles 's reign . |
| 36 | One technological improvement is a little better-documented : water-mills proliferated , with references to them in Charles the Bald 's charters , for instance , becoming increasingly frequent as the reign went on . |
| 37 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 38 | Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs . |
| 39 | In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà . |
| 40 | Bristol is only half aware that in the entrance hall and staircase hall of the Royal Fort it has a masterwork of European significance that ranks easily alongside Frederick the Great 's interiors at Sans Souci . |
| 41 | Information of most political importance , such as news of the death of a king or queen , went astonishingly fast , both within Charles the Bald 's kingdom and , over great distances , between Carolingian kingdoms . |
| 42 | Robert Anthony , for Sim , 33 , of Portobello Road , London , told the High Court in Edinburgh the accused 's cousin had borrowed £5,000 from moneylenders in London but disappeared when he was unable to repay it . |
| 43 | In Ponthieu the seneschal 's functions did not differ substantially from those or the seneschal of Gascony . |
| 44 | A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal . |
| 45 | However , in January 1948 Don Juan had been advised by American representatives to mend his fences with Franco , and in August he accepted an invitation to meet Franco on board the latter 's yacht , the Azor . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | On paper , they were the most significant addition to the structure of Russian local government since Catherine the Great 's reconstruction of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 48 | The arrival of the atheist Bolsheviks as the new élite merely accentuated the cultural schism between the peasantry and the ruling strata that had existed since Peter the Great 's reign . |
| 49 | This raises one last point about the geographical distribution of the symptoms dealt with in this chapter : each can be found outside Charles the Bald 's kingdom ; but the syndrome of generalised cash-relations in the countryside , the proliferation of markets and mints , extensive activities of traders including small-scale ones in civitates , and a pattern of frequent royal residence in or near civitates , can be found only there — and specifically in the north-eastern part of the West Frankish kingdom . |
| 50 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 51 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 52 | The point is important , because much of the modern secondary literature on Charles the Bald 's reign , and on the Carolingians generally , has depicted the aristocracy as greedy and boorish , incapable of sharing the higher aspirations of kings or clergy , lacking any sense of public interest . |
| 53 | Because Swans have belonged to the crown since Henry the eight 's day Dines was prosecuted for criminal damage to property … rather than animal cruelty which carries a lesser penalty . |
| 54 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 55 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 56 | Pippin " fled " back to Aquitaine , and welcomed an unexpected ally : Bernard , who had lost forever any chance of recovering great influence at Louis the Pious 's court . |
| 57 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 58 | Austro-Hungarian foreign policy was both simplified and complicated by her forcible exclusion from Germany in 1866–7 ; this ended a struggle opened by Frederick the Great 's seizure of Silesia . |