Example sentences of "[noun] of the society of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 2 | The chairman of the Society of Authors , Anthony Sampson , has written to the BBC to protest about the shelving of ‘ Bookshelf ’ , broadcast for the past 15 years and the only programme on Radio 4 devoted specifically to books . |
| 3 | And both the organisations were co-signatories of a letter — signed also by leading figures in the book business , including BA president John Hitchin , PA president Paul Scherer and Anthony Sampson , chairman of the Society of Authors — which was sent in December to the Chancellor under the auspices of the National Book Committee 's ‘ Do n't Tax Reading ’ campaign . |
| 4 | Unfortunately no biographical details concerning the author appeared with the original article , I understand from Francis Treuherz of The Society of Homœopaths that Dr. Schore edited a journal entitled Homœotherapy which began in 1982 and ran to 8 volumes . |
| 5 | Despite the high quality of this multifarious output , Cary 's only public recognition was the award of the Society of Arts gold medal ( 1804 ) for publishing Singer 's Cardiganshire survey ( 1803 ) . |
| 6 | The British Greens , for example , allow time for ‘ attunement ’ before their meetings start , reminiscent in its way of the reflective silence that can prevail at meetings of the Society of Friends . |
| 7 | He was an active member of the monthly , quarterly , and yearly meetings of the Society of Friends , of its committee for sufferings , and of the latter 's subcommittee for American affairs . |
| 8 | On 20 January 1789 , Eccleston concluded a letter to the editor of the Transactions of the Society of Arts with a postscript : ‘ Mr Moorcroft is a young man of the greatest abilities , and has agreed to turn his thoughts from the practice of physic and surgery , entirely to that of farriery in every branch , provided he can meet with sufficient and certain encouragement in the establishment of a Veterinarian School . |
| 9 | [ Alnwick Journal , 15 August 1859 , 15 August 1860 , and July 1868 ; R. F. J. Common , The History of the Invention of the Reaping Machine , 1907 ; W. T. Hutchinson , Cyrus Hall McCormick : Seed-Time , 1809–1856 , 1930 ; Transactions of the Society of Arts , vol. xxxvi , 1819 ; Journal of the Society of Arts , vol. xxvi , 1877–8 ; Duke of Northumberland 's collection of MSS , Alnwick Castle ; parish register copies , Northumberland Record Office . ] |
| 10 | In addition , a joint consultation exercise with the Ethics Committee of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency on a revised insolvency statement is well under way . |
| 11 | He was awarded the Telford gold medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( 1967 ) , the Royal medal of the Royal Society ( 1968 ) , the James Watt medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( 1969 ) , and the Churchill gold medal of the Society of Engineers ( 1970 ) . |
| 12 | In 1807 he received the gold medal of the Society of Arts , Commerce , and Manufactures , for his agricultural innovations . |
| 13 | Minns was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1925 , received the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries in 1943 , and was knighted in 1945 . |
| 14 | In June 1968 , soon after receiving the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries , she had a stroke . |
| 15 | The warning came from , president of the Insolvency Practitioners Association at the Scottish conference of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency . |
| 16 | In Berlin , the same man , Anton von Werner , was director of the Royal College and leader of the Society of Artists from 1887 . |
| 17 | After he retired form the University he was Clerk of London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends . |
| 18 | The annual general meeting of the Society of Archers then takes place . |
| 19 | Large-scale mining of copper began in Britain under Queen Elizabeth I , with the establishment of the Society of Mines Royal which had a monopoly in copper trading and was responsible for bringing many German miners to this country . |
| 20 | [ M. F. Bond , ‘ The Formation of the Archives of Parliament , 1497–1691 ’ , Journal of the Society of Archivists , vol. i , 1957 , pp. 151–8 ; House of Lords Record Office Memorandum , no. 61 , 1979 , pp. 13–14 ; typescript notes on John Browne compiled by M. Edmond , House of Lords Record Office ; G. Baker , History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton , 1822–30 ; House of Lords Manuscripts , new series , vol. xi , 1962 , pp. xxvi–xxviii . ] |
| 21 | [ M. F. Bond , ‘ The Formation of the Archives of Parliament , 1497–1691 ’ , Journal of the Society of Archivists , vol. i , 1957 , pp. 151–8 ; E. R. Forster , ‘ The Painful Labour of Mr. Elsyng ’ , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , vol. lxii , part 8 , 1972 . ] |
| 22 | [ Alnwick Journal , 15 August 1859 , 15 August 1860 , and July 1868 ; R. F. J. Common , The History of the Invention of the Reaping Machine , 1907 ; W. T. Hutchinson , Cyrus Hall McCormick : Seed-Time , 1809–1856 , 1930 ; Transactions of the Society of Arts , vol. xxxvi , 1819 ; Journal of the Society of Arts , vol. xxvi , 1877–8 ; Duke of Northumberland 's collection of MSS , Alnwick Castle ; parish register copies , Northumberland Record Office . ] |
| 23 | He was a main contributor to the photographic exhibition held in the Great Room of the Society of Arts in London in 1852 , which was the first of its kind . |
| 24 | All prospective presidential candidates would have to screened by a pre-selection committee , comprising the government-appointed chairman of the Public Service Commission , a member of the Presidential Council of Minority Rights , and the head of the Society of Accountants . |
| 25 | Monograph publications of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Institute in Eastern Africa are distributed by Oxbow Books , ( ) . |
| 26 | The 132nd annual open exhibition of the Society of Women Artists will take place at the Westminster Gallery , Westminster Central Hall , Storey 's Gate , London SW1 from March 19 to 30 , 1993. handing-in day for works : January 19 1993 between 10 am and 5 pm . |
| 27 | The 132nd annual open exhibition of the Society of Women Artists will take place at the Westminster Gallery , Westminster Central Hall , Storey 's Gate , London SW1 from march 19 to 30 . |
| 28 | The marriages of Jews and of members of the Society of Friends are exempt from these provisions , and may be celebrated according to the rules of these religious bodies . |
| 29 | The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities |
| 30 | The archaeological section has papers on discoveries reported in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland from 1881 , reports of more recent excavations and an " Archaeological Gazeteer of Islay " in 1959 . |