Example sentences of "to take the oath of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Justice of the Forest was ordered to take the oath of fealty from his woodwards , |
| 2 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 3 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 4 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 5 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 6 | As part of the process of organizing Nova Scotia as a colony more seriously than before , the Acadians were pressed to take the oath of allegiance to George II in accordance with the Treaty of Utrecht , and those who refused were deported to the French settlement in Louisiana . |
| 7 | who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown under the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 , on the ground that he was an atheist and the oath would be meaningless . |
| 8 | When he was nominated for alderman in January 1642 , there was some trouble about his unwillingness to take the oath of supremacy and allegiance , but he was eventually sworn in . |
| 9 | I always remember him turning to Thomas Cromwell about the trial of an abbot who had refused to take the Oath of Supremacy . |
| 10 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 11 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 12 | I re-capped ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to — the Queen . ’ |