Example sentences of "ii [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son planned a whole new courtyard and other buildings , but before his death had got little further than a north-west tower , later to be incorporated in further developments by Charles II 's architect , Sir William Bruce . |
| 2 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 3 | English scholars went to Prague in the wake of Anne of Bohemia , Richard II 's wife , and there introduced the works of Wycliffe . |
| 4 | In June 1688 , James II 's wife , Mary of Modena , gave birth to a son ( later known as the ‘ Old Pretender ’ ) and the threat of a return to continuing Roman Catholic royalty caused six politicians with Bishop Compton of London , secretly to invite William of Orange , the leader of the Dutch against Louis XIV of France , to claim the English throne on behalf of his wife , Mary , the eldest daughter of James . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of them were paltry , but a few made plain that Alexander II 's attitude to the army differed from that of his father . |
| 7 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 8 | Duncan , the son presented to the English king as hostage some twenty years earlier , now appealed for William II 's help in return for a promise of fealty . |
| 9 | From Pippin II 's standpoint in 839 , any support was welcome ; and Bernard had useful contacts , through kinsmen and inherited lands , in Septimania and in Burgundy . |
| 10 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
| 11 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 12 | On the whole , although there is an exception in 583 , when Childebert II 's army refused to obey the policies of bishop Egidius of Rheims , the military followers of the Merovingians liked to fight : a battle brought hope of booty . |
| 13 | Charles 's sister Isabella , Edward II 's queen , was still alive , and his two predecessors , Louis X who died in 1316 , and Philip V who died in 1321 , had daughters — Philip had five . |
| 14 | On 19 March Pope John XXII reserved the see for John of Puzzuoli , chaplain of Edward II 's queen , Isabella [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | The walls were similarly unadorned , apart from a large looking glass above the mantelpiece and , on the opposite wall , a double portrait by Van Dyck of two melancholy black-clad gentlemen of King Charles II 's court . |
| 16 | The Russian monk Rasputin , who was influential in Tsar Nicholas II 's court , was the subject of Cyril Flack 's manuscript . |
| 17 | The Dorotheum 's 9/10 March sale of Old Master pictures in Vienna will include ‘ Tarquin and Lucretia ’ by Rudolf II 's court painter Hans von Aachen , recently rediscovered by the auction house 's paintings expert Peter Wolf in a private collection . |
| 18 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 19 | Another fine eight-part composition , the motet ‘ Super flumina Babylonis ’ , was in 1583 sent by de Monte to William Byrd whom he must have met thirty years earlier during his visit to England as a member of Philip II 's chapel . |
| 20 | Charles II 's expansion into North America had been a process of expansion by proprietors , but this was almost all dismantled in the following generation . |
| 21 | In part this was due to Henry II 's presence on the Continent from April 1180 to July 1181 ; in part it doubtless reflects the subdued mood of the Angoumois and the Limousin with so many of the wealthiest and most influential nobles away on pilgrimage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | Through his other books however Bunyan had become famous when he was released under Charles II 's Act of Indulgence in 1672 and became Pastor of the Bedford Meeting . |
| 25 | Ademar 's evidence is demonstrably unreliable , however ; and without it , there is nothing to show that Pippin II 's support was at all widespread . |
| 26 | Any grant of papal support or protection , as Alexander II 's support of William the Conqueror 's invasion of England in 1066 , was likely to lead to a request for a quid pro quo or a reminder of a payment due . |
| 27 | Yet throughout these eventful years the tradition of Catholic imitative polyphony flowed on undisturbed , reaching even greater technical equability in the work of Josquin 's presumed pupil Nicolas Gombert ( c. 1500–c. 1556 ) and Jacobus Clemens ‘ non Papa' ( c. 1510–c. 1557 ) , with whom we may associate other natives of French Flanders : Thomas Crecquillon ( d.c. 1557 ) ; Jean Richafort ( c. 1480–c. 1547 ) , an older pupil of Josquin 's ; two composers whose identities were confused even in their lifetime , Lupus Hellinck ( c. 1495–1541 ) and Johannes Lupus or Lupi ( Jean Leleu ) ( c. 1506–1539 ) , the confusion being worse confounded by two less distinguished contemporaries named Johannes Lupus ; Noel Bauldewyn ( d. 1530 ) , who was Richafort 's successor at Malines Cathedral and composer of the Missa Da Pacem long attributed to Josquin ; 3 and Pierre de Manchicourt ( c. 1510–1564 ) who towards the end of his life became master of Philip II 's capilla flamenca , in which both Gombert and Crecquillon had served under Philip 's father , the Emperor Charles V. |
| 28 | Apple reportedly hopes to offer the machine at approximately Macintosh LC II prices , but it will deliver up to 30 times the LC II 's performance when running software written for the new RISC CPU 's native mode . |
| 29 | Edward II 's triumph at Boroughbridge was followed by a bloodbath which was unprecedented both in its scale and in the unease it aroused amongst contemporaries . |
| 30 | The most obvious example of the significance it could have is Frederick II 's invasion of Saxony in August 1756 . |