Example sentences of "in [adj] ['s] reign " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 2 | An attempt to explain what went wrong in Æthelred 's reign must begin with the sources . |
| 3 | Although a degree of corruption was inevitable , it seems in Æthelred 's reign to have gone so far beyond what many of his subjects considered acceptable that it was their main preoccupation when they considered having him back . |
| 4 | In Æthelred 's reign those who testified to the authenticity of one disputed land transaction included the archbishop of Canterbury , a bishop , an earl and the king 's mother . |
| 5 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 6 | Conditions late in Æthelred 's reign could well have resulted in such a movement , for apart from the effects of famine and enemy harrying , those landowners with dependent peasantry may often have expected them to shoulder much of the tax burden , and that burden had been particularly heavy between 1011 and 1014 . |
| 7 | In Æthelred 's reign Ramsey was patronised by Ealdorman Æthelwine of East Anglia and his relatives , Ely by Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his kin . |
| 8 | The abbey of Tavistock was burnt in 997 , and that of Cerne later despoiled by Cnut , while St Mary 's church in Exeter was seemingly destroyed in the sack of 1003 , and the nunnery at Minster-in-Thanet at some stage in Æthelred 's reign . |