Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the royal [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably to be grouped with the royal priests as a king 's man is Ælfweard , allegedly a relative of Cnut , who became bishop of London in 1035 without relinquishing the abbacy of Evesham , contrary to church law . |
| 2 | Still a device was invented to cover up the disappearance of an old landmark ; and at the accession of Her present gracious Majesty , she was unlawfully proclaimed by a new title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , subsequently legalised by the Royal Titles Act 1953 , against which I am proud to recall that I protested in my place in the House of Commons . |
| 3 | This is the case at Richmond , where it is incorporated in the royal charters of Elizabeth I in 1576 and Charles II in 1668 , but it is believed to be much older . |
| 4 | And thirdly , among the grants and privileges traditionally produced by the royal chancery , there appeared again regular records of judgements made in the royal courts , and royal letters of command , mandements , like the English writs absent since the reign of king Eudes . |
| 5 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 6 | The Habsburgs , the Wittelsbachs , the Royal Houses of Baden and Württemberg , even the Romanovs , all had direct or tenuous connections with the Bonapartes , while through the descendants of Eugène de Beauharnais they were related to the Royal Houses of Sweden and Portugal as well as to the Emperor of Brazil . |
| 7 | De Montfort was killed , his body hacked to bits and fed to the royal dogs . |
| 8 | The freedom of the city was the highest honour it could bestow , and this has been granted to the Royal Engineers in 1949 ; since then they had taken an active part in the life of the city . |
| 9 | Visits were also made to the royal stables and barracks . |
| 10 | Built by the royal masons in 1250 , it is octagonal and still has its original floor of glazed tiles . |
| 11 | The Chapter House was built by the royal masons in 1250 and contains some of the finest medieval sculpture in England . |
| 12 | Many statutes are the result of recommendations made by the Royal Commissions and departmental committees . |
| 13 | Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1932 , Winchester joined the Bengal Sappers and Miners in India . |
| 14 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
| 15 | He was a classical scholar at Charterhouse , and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in August 1899 from the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich . |
| 16 | He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in August 1900 . |
| 17 | By November , however , he had enlisted in the Royal Engineers , from which he later transferred to the 18th King 's Royal Rifles . |
| 18 | Dr. Williamson , currently based at the Royal Southants Hospital in Southampton , takes over from Dr. Dipnarine Maharaj who left Darlington last year to head a research team in Florida . |
| 19 | The invasion never came and the tower was left to decay until 1850 when it was renovated by the Royal Engineers and occupied by artillerymen from Leith until 1869 . |
| 20 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
| 21 | The fine things recovered from the royal burials at Ur , from the tomb of Tutankhamun , the dynastic cemeteries of China or the ship-burial of Sutton Hoo were measures not merely of piety but of emulation at the highest level . |
| 22 | Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican . |
| 23 | But the tenants of three of the forest townships , namely Alne , Tollerton and Newton , refused to agree to the disafforestment of Galtres Forest on the terms proposed by the royal commissioners , whereupon in March 1631 the king ordered that the lands of those townships should continue to be ‘ within the jurisdiction of a forest and the forest laws ’ . |
| 24 | Such was her hope and her intent , but once launched upon her exposition she quickly found herself confused by the royal actors of the Art . |
| 25 | Supplicius of Amboise 's refusal to assist Fulk le Réchin in the field , because Fulk 's enemy was Thibaud of Blois to whom Supplicius had also paid homage , proved that the task was not always straightforward.i On the other hand , William the Conqueror was well supported against the royal invasions after 1051 . |
| 26 | Frank , 73 , served with the Royal Marines and was severely burned while on the HMS Suffolk . |
| 27 | But he had not served in the Royal Marines for nothing . |
| 28 | Mr Hutton , who came from Stockton , served in the Royal Signals in the Far East during the Second World War , retiring in 1955 with the rank of captain . |
| 29 | A spokesman denied that any structural damage was caused to the royal rooms . |
| 30 | An even longer running battle was fought in the royal dockyards . |