Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] 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 | Labour councillors have secured a deal with the Society of Friends and the Two Castles Housing Association for the Court Arcade shops to be turned into sheltered accommodation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The steady stream of visitors to Max Gate continued , with many sightseers anxious for a glimpse of the great man , but also more welcome guests , including a deputation from the Society of Authors on his 80th birthday , and the Prince of Wales in 1923 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In 1807 he received the gold medal of the Society of Arts , Commerce , and Manufactures , for his agricultural innovations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In June 1968 , soon after receiving the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries , she had a stroke . |
| 12 | The warning came from , president of the Insolvency Practitioners Association at the Scottish conference of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency . |
| 13 | In Berlin , the same man , Anton von Werner , was director of the Royal College and leader of the Society of Artists from 1887 . |
| 14 | After he retired form the University he was Clerk of London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends . |
| 15 | The annual general meeting of the Society of Archers then takes place . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | [ 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 . ] |
| 18 | [ 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 . ] |
| 19 | [ 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 . ] |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Friends next evening event will be a joint meeting with the Society of Antiquaries to be held at Chambers Street on Tuesday 18 May at 8pm , where the lecturer will be , a leading authority of Islamic Art . |
| 22 | Apart from a silver cup sent by Sir Hans Sloane in 1742 , with which John Bartram was ‘ well pleased that thy name is engraved upon it at large , so that when my friends drink out of it , they may see who was my benefactor ’ and a gold medal from a Society of Gentlemen in Edinburgh , tangible appreciation was slow to cross the Atlantic . |
| 23 | In 1837 he received a silver Isis medal from the Society of Arts for his drawing of a marine steam engine , and in 1838 a silver Telford medal for his drawings and description of Huddert 's rope machinery . |
| 24 | I have sent the fee to the Society of Friends . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Among his earliest recorded works were the illustrations to the catalogue of the objects shown at the 1850 exhibition of ancient and medieval art at the Society of Arts . |
| 27 | It was also the occasion of his resignation from the Society of Friends . |
| 28 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |