Example sentences of "edward [noun] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 2 | He had spent his time in a lodging house on the Strand , eking out the small amount of money Edward Morris had been able to lend him . |
| 3 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had bad news , ’ he said , ‘ Edward Morris has been taken into Swansea Prison , he is accused of fraud . ’ |
| 5 | While , however , Admiral Hawke had been keeping a vigilant eye on Brest , Admiral Edward Boscawen had been busily patrolling off Toulon . |
| 6 | The question , therefore , is nakedly raised by this appeal , whether your Lordships are now prepared , not only to overrule , as contrary to law , the doctrine stated by Sir Edward Coke to have been laid down by all the judges of the Common Pleas in Pinnel 's Case ( 1602 ) 5 Co.Rep. 117a , in 1602 , and repeated in his note to Littleton , 344 , Co.Litt. 212b , but to treat a prospective agreement , not under seal , for satisfaction of a debt by a series of payments on account to a total amount less than the whole debt , as binding in law , provided these payments are regularly made ; the case not being one of a composition with a common debtor , agreed to , inter se , by several creditors … |
| 7 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 8 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 9 | Two conflicting assessments of Edward Coleman have been made — a favourable one by Principal James Beart Simonds , his one-time pupil at the College , in a biographical sketch published in his own old age , and an unfavourable one by Sir Frederick Smith in his History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps . |
| 10 | ESCAPED killer Edward Duffy has been recaptured — while filming a friend 's wedding . |
| 11 | Edward Cumberbatch has been appointed interim General Secretary of the Caribbean Conference of Churches ( CCC ) for the period March 1992 to October 1993 . |