Example sentences of "his contemporary [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Géraud V of Armagnac was apparently on better terms with Edward I than his contemporary Gaston VII of Béarn . |
| 2 | It is tempting in today 's church situation to say of Smith what his contemporary Wordsworth said of Milton . |
| 3 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 4 | As Le Cerf 's use of the terms ton and mode is somewhat confused this was perhaps exactly what he had in mind ; certainly his contemporary Michel de Saint Lambert was employing ton in the sense of a tonic upon which one could build a piece that was in either the major or minor mode . |
| 5 | There , Caxton would see men assembling pieces of type — of the kind invented by his contemporary Johannes Gutenberg — by hand . |
| 6 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 7 | Charles has never been cast as a Good King in the nation-building mould of his contemporary Alfred of Wessex : he would surely not have minded — for he was a Frank , not a Frenchman . |
| 8 | In the words of his contemporary Edmond Halley , he had penetrated the secret mansions of the gods . |
| 9 | In much the same vein his contemporary Macaulay wrote that " institutions purely democratic must , sooner or later , destroy liberty , or civilization , or both . " |
| 10 | The emphasis given to Ramsay 's too little known Dialogue on Taste of 1755 is intriguing , since it helps to understand the paintings , and to place Ramsay 's thoughts about art alongside those of his contemporary Reynolds . |
| 11 | Cuvier seemed to contemporaries to have had little trouble in demolishing the evolutionary scheme of his contemporary Lamarck . |
| 12 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 13 | John Dutton , a great friend of Oliver Cromwell , was a ‘ learned and prudent man , , according to his contemporary Anthony à Wood , ‘ and as one of the richest , so one of the meekest men in England ’ . |
| 14 | At first fortune smiled on him : ‘ He was tumbled out of his mother 's womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge ’ , says his contemporary Anthony à Wood . |
| 15 | Much of the history of evolutionary theory since then , including ‘ intragenomic conflict ’ , has consisted of rediscovering Haldane 's insights and those of his contemporary Sir Ronald Fisher . |
| 16 | His contemporary Gregory Corso 's first book The Vestal Lady On Brattle had just been published . |
| 17 | Plutarch noted that he and his contemporary Scipio Nasica disagreed on certain details of the battle of Pydna ( Aem . |
| 18 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 19 | The monastery had been founded in the fourth century , not long after the death of St Paul the Egyptian who , like his contemporary Antony , had been a desert ascetic . |
| 20 | He had been caught in the spiral which made his contemporary Polybius the champion of Roman law and order . |