Example sentences of "and sir [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Latest show the Curtiss JN-4 Canuck and Sir Frank Wilton Baillie 's Gipsy Moth .
2 Today 's peers include Miss Daphne Park , retired principal of Somerville College , Oxford — Mrs Thatcher 's alma mater — and Sir Frank Tombs , chairman of Rolls-Royce and Turner & Newall , a pillar of the industrial wing of the British Establishment .
3 A War Cabinet , consisting of Mrs Thatcher , Whitelaw , Pym , Nott , and Cecil Parkinson , assisted by civil servants such as Sir Robert Armstrong , Sir Anthony Acland , and Sir Frank Cooper , along with Admiral Sir Terence Lewin of the Chiefs of Staff , directed operations , At this kind of uncomplicated executive command , the Prime Minister excelled : her instinct for isolated decision-making was now a strength , not a weakness .
4 Charles relied on the tried and trusted legal figures of Lord Goodman — who negotiated in the break-up of the marriages of Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal — and Sir Mathew Farrer .
5 IN THE ROOMS HANG many distinguished family portraits painted by such renowned 18th and early 19th century artists as Thomas Gainsborough , George Romney , John Hoppner , Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Joshua Reynolds , landscapes by Turner and Girtin and Renaissance masterpieces by Bellini , El Greco , Tintoretto , Titian and Veronese .
6 Among the objects to be sold are what is thought to be the only signed painting by Petrus Troueil , the portrait of Sir Francis Ottley and his family ( est. £40–60,000 ) , Sir Joshua Reynolds 's ‘ Admiral Cotes ’ ( est. £15–20,000 ) and other paintings by John Hoppner , James Ward , Michael Dahl and Sir Godfrey Kneller .
7 The most troublesome period concerned the budget in 1981 , when Jim Prior , peter Walker , and Sir Ian Gilmour were so opposed to its deflationary thrust that they considered resigning .
8 Such likely opponents of the economic strategy as Lord Carrington and Sir Ian Gilmour were banished to the Foreign Office while Francis Pym went to Defence .
9 Mr Prior , Mr Walker , and Sir Ian Gilmour opposed many of Mrs Thatcher 's and the Chancellor 's economic policies , and all three at some time seriously considered resignation over the 1981 budget .
10 At Nottingham Edward was joined by two more northern household men , Sir James Harrington of Brierly ( Yorks. ) and Sir William Parr of Kendal .
11 At Nottingham Edward was joined by two more northern household men , Sir James Harrington of Brierly ( Yorks. ) and Sir William Parr of Kendal .
12 More recently I painted Sir Bernard Weatherall , the former Speaker of the House of Commons , and Sir William Rees Mogg .
13 After the Battle of Neville 's Cross , in October 1346 , King David II and Sir William Douglas , ‘ Knight of Liddesdale ’ , were captured along with sundry other Scottish nobles .
14 The two published a number of works together and , after Moseley 's death in 1661 , Herringman purchased from Moseley 's estate copyrights to the poems of Abraham Cowley , Richard Crashaw , Sir John Denham , John Donne , Sir John Suckling , and Edmund Waller [ qq.v. ] , as well as some of the plays of Ben Jonson and Sir William Davenant [ qq.v . ] .
15 From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC .
16 Swift introduced Diaper to his circle where he was taken up by Henry St John , first Viscount Bolingbroke , and Sir William Wyndham [ qq.v . ] .
17 Political proscription drove more Tories into the arms of the Pretender ( amongst them leading figures such as Bolingbroke , Ormonde and Sir William Wyndham ) as their only hope of political salvation .
18 His stepfather quickly summoned a lawyer from Liskeard and sold the estate to John Trelawney , Francis Buller and Sir William Mohan .
19 Amongst them were Henry Care ( a Presbyterian , and author of the Exclusionist periodical , the Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome ) , who became James 's chief propagandist in promoting the cause of religious toleration , and Sir William Williams , who became James 's solicitor-general ( and who was to lead the prosecution of the seven bishops in 1688 ) .
20 Eclipsed by more dynamic colleagues , such as Anthony Ashley Cooper ( first Baron Ashley and later first Earl of Shaftesbury ) , Sir Thomas Clifford ( later first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ) , and Sir William Coventry [ qq.v . ] ,
21 Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) .
22 He was a friend of such antiquaries as Sir Robert Cotton ( with whom he swapped medieval manuscripts and from whose collection he copied extracts ) , Sir Simonds D'Ewes , and Sir William Dugdale [ qq.v. ] ( who in his History of Warwickshire , 1730 edition , p. 913 , thanked him as ‘ a gentleman of great knowledge in Antiquities and a special furtherer of this worke ’ ) .
23 The turncoat rebels included former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , and right-wingers Sir George Gardiner and Sir Rhodes Boyson .
24 The rise of Lloyd George to become prime minister in December 1916 , and the close proximity of Rufus Isaacs , Edwin Montague and Sir Alfred Mond as his advisers , gave a spurious plausibility to such claims .
25 And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision .
26 But out-going bosses Sir Nigel Broakes and Sir Eric Parker , the dynamic duo who have manned the pumps during the storm , are taking the development in their stride .
27 The other panellists on the current affairs discussion programme , presented by Jonathan Dimbleby , will be Lady Howe , Anthony Smith , president of Magdalen College , Oxford , and Sir Nigel Mobbs , chairman of property company Slough Estates .
28 Four other non-executive directors , Sir Derek Birkin , chairman of RTZ , Sir Martin Jacomb , a director of the Bank of England , and Sir Nigel Mobbs , the Slough Estates chairman , will also sit on the committee .
29 ‘ The room was swept just three days ago , ’ the uniformed messenger said , and Sir Anthony Sladen thanked him automatically , although everybody knew the remark was meaningless .
30 He painted with the meticulous craft of the Elizabethan limner in a style derived from the elaborate concoctions of mannerist court portraiture ; a style soon to be swept away by the tide of the baroque brought to England from Flanders by Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck [ q.v . ] .
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