Example sentences of "in [noun] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the changes set in train in Ivan the Terrible 's reign recast secular society , the impact upon the Church was no less momentous . |
| 2 | In so far as Anselm had a policy as archbishop beyond the pastoral duties outlined in Gregory the Great 's Regula Pastoralis , the defence of the Canterbury primacy formed its foundation and the legislation of his two primatial Councils were its crowning achievement . |
| 3 | In July the Southern 's south-east , central and south-west divisions were abolished , new passenger business manager posts created and a reduced number of area manager posts ( but each with increased responsibility ) set up . |
| 4 | There is no direct evidence at all as to even which year Charlemagne was born ; in Louis the Pious 's case , the year ( but not the exact date ) of birth was recorded by the Astronomer , his anonymous biographer , because Louis was exceptional as the survivor of a pair of twin boys . |
| 5 | These losses , politically damaging , and bad for morale ( they were seen in Louis the Pious 's entourage as divine retribution on former rebels ) , weakened Lothar 's resistance to his father 's pressure . |
| 6 | They have vigorously contested in court the Metropolitan 's assertion that the Turkish government was tardy in pursuing its claim . |
| 7 | 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 . ] |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In Ponthieu the seneschal 's functions did not differ substantially from those or the seneschal of Gascony . |
| 15 | 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 . |