Example sentences of "iv ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip IV 's master torturers , a motley gang of Italians and strange , wild creatures from Wallachia , were expert in breaking the bodies and souls of their prisoners . |
| 2 | The pope 's letter to Lanfranc is preserved in Eadmer 's Historia Novorum , and , according to Eadmer , it was Lanfranc himself who had sent to Rome to ask for a confirmation of Boniface IV 's privilege . |
| 3 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
| 4 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 5 | Here are represented the ‘ International Gothic ’ style of Charles IV 's court — a style that even influenced artists in that bastion of the Renaissance , Florence ; the Mannerist art of the 16 and early 17C ; and Czech Baroque , whose artists vied with those farther west in their range of subject matter and technique . |
| 6 | Royal secretaries were notoriously vulnerable to dynastic change , since they were so close to the king , but Edward IV 's secretary , Oliver King , remained in office until mid June . |
| 7 | Briefly , in 1402 , he became Henry IV 's secretary , proof of that king 's continuing difficulty in running an effective government rather than of special intimacy . |
| 8 | Royal secretaries were notoriously vulnerable to dynastic change , since they were so close to the king , but Edward IV 's secretary , Oliver King , remained in office until mid June . |
| 9 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 10 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 11 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 12 | A third was a member of Edward IV 's household , Christopher Worsley , a marshall of the hall , who had been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1470 and whose links with Gloucester are unknown . |
| 13 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 14 | The office of controller of the coinage of tin , previously held by Sir Thomas Vaughan , passed to another of Edward IV 's household men , Avery Cornburgh , who had been feodary of the duchy and occupier of the mines in Devon and Cornwall . |
| 15 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 16 | Oxford was an active supporter of the Readeption of Henry VI in 1470/1 , and on Edward IV 's return the family lost their estates for a second time . |
| 17 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 18 | Oxford was an active supporter of the Readeption of Henry VI in 1470/1 , and on Edward IV 's return the family lost their estates for a second time . |
| 19 | Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV 's reign . |
| 20 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 21 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 22 | In the context of Edward IV 's reign , in which the retinue was created , neither assumption is true . |
| 23 | But Mancini is here guilty of reading back into Edward IV 's reign the tensions which he observed after the king 's death . |
| 24 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 25 | In Edward IV 's reign John Carent married Isobel , heiress of the Rempstones , to whom the manor had descended . |
| 26 | In the early years of Henry IV 's reign it was primarily an official body executing his wishes . |
| 27 | By Charles IV 's reign regalism proceeded to an attack on church property , and with Urquijo , most radical of the regalists , it bordered on schism . |
| 28 | She had decided to overcome her natural ‘ laziness ’ and keep a diary on the fourth day of George IV 's reign , 1 February 1820 . |
| 29 | Londoners were deeply involved in the revival of the Gascon wine trade in Edward IV 's reign , and also in the trade in metals , particularly Cornish tin . |
| 30 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |