Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] court " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown . |
| 2 | One lawyer at the French court observed that it had ‘ never been seen or known for the kingdom of France to be subjected to the government of the king of England ’ . |
| 3 | He liked to think of Beamish in the dock at the Central Court , his counsel blustering on about his client 's perfectly normal , acceptable need for heavy metal poisons ( ‘ But how do you explain , Mr Beamish , your ordering a quantity of thallium from a perfectly reputable chemist 's … ? ’ ) |
| 4 | Similar parts for the tre nobilissime giovani Dame ( or a similar group at Mantua ) were composed by a younger musician at the Mantuan court , Claudio Monteverdi , whose Terzo Libro de Madrigali ( 1592 ) includes a number of such pieces exploiting their various skills . |
| 5 | But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them . |
| 6 | 1960 The Wesker Trilogy , The Kitchen , Chicken Soup and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem open to great acclaim at the Royal Court . |
| 7 | For a judge at the European Court , the answer to this problem is generally provided by the use of computers . |
| 8 | One of the other secretaries in the firm — who works in fact for my own solicitor — is coming with a friend and myself next Saturday to see Judge David Edward ( a Judge at the European Court of Justice ) receive the ‘ Royal Bank of Scotland and Edinburgh University Alumnus of the Year Award ’ — the secretary because she worked for D.A . |
| 9 | The progressive inclusion of eastern Europeans in the Council of Europe was symbolized by the appointment in late April 1991 of a Hungarian lawyer , Andras Baka , 38 , as the first eastern European judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 10 | Sir Gordon Slynn , the UK judge at the European Court , warned that the government would have to comply with any order to halt work , if confirmed by the Court . |
| 11 | Sophia Dorothea enjoyed the huge family circle at the Hanoverian court where she , being good-looking and lively , was a great favourite . |
| 12 | He has retained his post at the imperial court in Hue . |
| 13 | De Monte published some Ronsard sonnet-settings in 1575 , including a beautiful ‘ Le premier iour du moy de may ’ , and a few other chansons , but nothing German despite his long residence at the Imperial court in Vienna and Prague . |
| 14 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 15 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 16 | It fails to guarantee civil rights , as our lamentable record at the European Court of Human Rights shows . |
| 17 | For some thirty years Hickey practised as an attorney at the Supreme Court established in 1774 in the capital of the new British empire in India to administer English law to the inhabitants of Calcutta and to British subjects in Bengal generally . |
| 18 | Government officials fear many more schemes will be held up in protracted dispute with the commissioner at the European Court of Appeal . |
| 19 | Kenneth Taylor , who said he did not receive any extra payment other than his normal wages , was giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen on the second day of the trial of Alexander Murray . |
| 20 | A divisional fire officer with Lothian and Borders fire brigade , William Templeton , was giving evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | The girl was giving evidence at the High Court in Glasgow at the trial of her 38-year-old father , her grandfather , 64 , and her uncle , 23 , who can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 22 | The Iran-US claims tribunal at the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled on May 6 that Iran was entitled to receive compensation from the USA for non-military assets in the USA which had been frozen following the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran . |
| 23 | WINNERS of tickets to the Broken Wings gig at the Royal Court on June 24 are Annamarie Owens of Liverpool 16 and Andrew Kay of Mawdesley , near Ormskirk . |
| 24 | On his return to Vienna in November 1787 , Mozart 's fortunes received an unexpected boost — his first permanent appointment at the Viennese court as kammermusicus ( chamber composer ) . |
| 25 | Robert McLaren , 30 , made the claim at the High Court sitting at Perth when his brother was accused of endangering his life and attempting to murder him . |
| 26 | O. Pächt identified the Alexis Master as Anketil , a monk-goldsmith of St Albans Abbey , who completed a new shrine for the relics of St Alban in 1129 , and spent part of his career at the Danish court as royal moneyer . |
| 27 | The legate , Walter Cardinal-Archbishop of Albano , who brought the pallium , was an eminent man at the papal court , and he clearly had doubts about Anselm 's reliability . |
| 28 | Mozart inherited Gluck 's position as chamber composer at the Viennese court following the latter 's death . |
| 29 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |
| 30 | A jury at the High Court in Glasgow had found George Harris , 21 , guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder John Brown , 30 . |