Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] distinguished [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their most distinguished members was a C.J. Bromhead who was unique amongst deaf people in that he was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society with responsibility for weather observation in Lincoln . |
| 2 | He had been earmarked as a potential leader , in 1979 , by winning the Oloman-Ellis Award , which the National Council of Social Workers with the Deaf inaugurated in 1977 to commemorate the lives of two of their most distinguished members , Robert Stavers Oloman of York and Joseph Ellis of Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 3 | But why should Oxford be so coy about a man who may turn out to be one of its most distinguished alumni ? |
| 4 | There is no doubt that his untimely death robbed British aviation of one of its most distinguished names . |
| 5 | Unlike some of his most distinguished contemporaries , the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is reputed to have found the whole process of recording totally congenial , offering the possibility to refine interpretations in a manner which was not always possible in the white-heat surroundings of the concert hall . |
| 6 | Even a figure more comparable with Lewis , G. K. Chesterton , had at this age published five of his most distinguished books , and discovered his own voice . |
| 7 | One of our most distinguished lepidopterists , she reflects with pleasure that the butterfly has been ‘ in many lands at different times … a symbol of the soul ’ . |
| 8 | I wonder what it tells of the spirit of the age that the 100th birthday of one of our most distinguished writers should be greeted by a knocking biography . |
| 9 | Michael Swinton is not , of course , one of our most distinguished painters , his style is too obvious , too photographic but I imagine that to you it seemed a wonderful distinction . ’ |
| 10 | This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone . |