Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] peasants ' " in BNC.
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1 | The commercialization of peasant agriculture had been fostering such differentiation long before Stolypin threw his weight behind it , yet it had done nothing to temper the ferocity of the peasants ' attack upon the nobility in 1905 . |
2 | The summer of 1381 saw the outbreak of the Peasants ' Revolt in England , an uprising against the government of the day , to whose causes the financial demands of war and the inability ( or unwillingness ? ) of the royal administration to defend adequately the coast of southern England against French and Castilian incursions of increasing frequency and intensity certainly contributed . |
3 | the geese in the peasants ' yard next door |
4 | Landlords usually managed to inflate the levels of the peasants ' obligations , as the arbitrators who supervised the preparation of the charters belonged to the gentry estate and tended to take the landlords ' side . |
5 | The chair of the Peasants ' Party , Yury Chernichenko , read an appeal to Yeltsin , which protested against the appointment of collective and state farm chairmen to head the commissions for the privatization of state and collective farms . |
6 | Such is found to be the effectiveness of having a second person-in-role ( usually another teacher ) that Newcastle upon Tyne Drama Advisory Team have cultivated the idea of offering a ‘ character ’ to the local schools ( they call it ‘ Rent-a-role ’ , so that a class in a primary school , say , working on the topic of The Peasants ' Revolt can — with sufficient notice of course ! — ask one of the team to come into the school as Wat Tyler ) . |
7 | The authorities also gave themselves the most important voice on the gentry committees which were to decide on land boundaries and the size of the peasants ' payments . |
8 | We have already noted Miliutin 's desire to maintain the size of the peasants ' landholdings . |
9 | Instead of speaking of " the emancipation of the peasants " , the rescript referred only to " the improvement of the peasants ' way of life " . |
10 | Nevertheless , three marshland villages in Essex led the way in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 ; Sedgemoor will always be associated with Monmouth , s Rebellion ; and agitations against fen drainage played a small , but significant , part in both the career of Oliver Cromwell and the origins of the English Revolution . |
11 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
12 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |