Example sentences of "[coord] sir charles [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conclusion of one-and-a-half days devoted to recording sessions for a new ASV release , to include clarinet concertos by Gerald Finzi and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford , one sensed a tangible atmosphere of satisfaction upon entering London 's Henry Wood Hall . |
| 2 | Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century . |
| 3 | Distinguished artists Benjamin Luxon ( baritone ) , Linda Finnie ( mezzo soprano ) , Robert Cohen ( cello ) and Sir Charles Groves ( conductor ) are generously giving their services free , and the programme with its maritime theme will include Elgar 's Sea Pictures , Stanford 's Songs of the Sea , Arne 's Rule Britannia and a unique performance of Lord Berner 's The Triumph of Neptune , from his famous ballet for the Diaghilev company . |
| 4 | They had many friends in common , including Charles Dickens , Augustus De Morgan , and Sir Charles Wheatstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 5 | ENO performs the five-act version which includes the opening Fontainebleau scene , but this is longer than usual because the prelude and opening chorus about the privations of the French populace have been reconstructed from Verdi 's cuts by Andrew Porter ( whose excellent translation is used ) and Sir Charles Mackerras . |
| 6 | As many as 350 attended such functions and amongst members and guests were Lord Middleton , Brigadier-General Spears , Sir John Squire , the Earl of Iddesleigh , Lord Russell of Liverpool and Sir Charles Petrie . |
| 7 | Apart from Pennethorne , P. C. Hardwick , Sydney Smirke , Salvin , Mair and C. R. Cockerell expressed interest , and Sir Charles Barry and John Shaw did some preliminary work . |
| 8 | Burn , Angell and Pownall were examined on their part in the judging ; Coe , Scott and Charles Barry junior as competitors ; and Sir Charles Barry as an architect who had ‘ directed much thought to the subject ’ . |
| 9 | Gladstone and Russell became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary respectively , for the second time , and Sir Charles Wood , a former President of the Board of Control , became the Secretary of State for India . |
| 10 | It may be true , as Lord Chesterfield claimed , that ‘ whenever he goes … into high life , he grossly mistakes the modes ’ , or , as Walpole did , that his are ‘ pictures of high life as conceived by a book-seller ’ , but Sir Charles Grandison on his country estate nevertheless represents the middle-class idealization of the aristocracy . |