Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the royal [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This is not the case for the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , RSSPCC . ) |
| 2 | Friction between the Royal Geographical Society and Borchgrevink prevented their efforts from receiving due recognition , though Colbeck received the Murchison grant from the society . |
| 3 | The aim of the ride is to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and I hope to raise £1,000 . |
| 4 | While declaring an interest and reluctantly accepting what my right hon. Friend says about flying squadrons , may I ask him to confirm that there is a good future for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in view of its exceptional record and its cost effectiveness as a reserve force ? |
| 5 | Very shortly after the founding of the Institution on 4 March 1824 , Sir William proposed the ‘ establishment of a District Association of the Royal National Institution ’ . |
| 6 | Paddy , made an honorary associate of the Royal Botanic Garden , Edinburgh in 1992 in recognition of his contribution to the world of botany , said : ‘ I brought back these rare species of the Dendrobium from a field trip to Papua in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Sir Thomas , born in 1838 , had been a pupil of Sir Charles Lanyon and was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1900 . |
| 8 | This scientific enthusiasm was invaluable during his three years as President of the Royal Geographical Society and it has earned him a place on the National Environmental Research Council . |
| 9 | However , Sir Claus Moser , former head of the Government Statistical Service ( GSS ) , and Sir David Cox , a former president of the Royal Statistical Society ( RSS ) , identify the turning point in the history of British official statistics as a White Paper in 1981 entitled Government Statistical Services . |
| 10 | From 1951 to 1953 he was president of the Royal Meteorological Society , which made him an honorary fellow in 1976 . |
| 11 | YORK HOUSE 10 October : The Duke of Kent , President of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , this afternoon received the Duke of Atholl upon relinquishing his appointment as Chairman . |
| 12 | For many years , he served as President of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf , up to his death in 1954 . |
| 13 | Princess Margaret honoured the ball with her presence , and was received on arrival by the Duke of Westminster who is the President of the Royal National Institute for the Blind , and Chairman of the RNIB Looking Glass Appeal ; and the Duchess of Westminster . |
| 14 | Smith was elected president of the Royal Anthropological Institute for 1933–5 . |
| 15 | Sir Daniel Macnee , Scotland 's leading portrait painter of his day and President of the Royal Scottish Academy , painted boxes at Cumnock as a young man , and William Leighton Leitch who worked first in Cumnock and then for the Smith brothers , later found fame in London as a water-colourist and for over 20 years visited Buckingham Palace and other royal residences where he taught painting to Queen Victoria and her family . |
| 16 | He also helped found the Celtic Review and was president of the Royal Celtic Society , 1921–6 . |
| 17 | In this case a nasty priority-dispute between the ‘ seconds ’ of the two men ended in mutual respect , with Adams as President of the Royal Astronomical Society later presenting Le Verrier with its gold medal . |
| 18 | Perhaps this is understandable in view of the blow to local employment and morale as a result of the closure of the Royal Naval Dockyard . |
| 19 | The Princess Royal , President , Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop at 104 High Street , Orpington , Kent ; opens and tours the new Head Office Building of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , Watling Street , Bexleyheath , Kent , and receives a cheque from the employees for the Save the Children Fund ; as Chancellor , London University , visits the Institute of Zoology , London Zoo , Regent 's Park , in celebration of the accession of the Institute of Zoology of the Royal Zoological Society to the University of London ; and , this evening , as Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , attends a dinner at the Natural History Museum , South Kensington , London SW7 . |
| 20 | The Princess Royal , Chancellor of the University of London , this afternoon visited the Institute of Zoology at London Zoo , Regent 's Park , in celebration of the accession of the Institute of Zoology of the Royal Zoological Society to the University of London and was received on arrival by the Lord Mayor of Westminster ( Councillor Simon Mabey ) . |
| 21 | With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , Florence Lees volunteered for war nursing and the Crown Princess Frederick of Prussia , Queen Victoria 's eldest daughter , made her superintendent of the Royal Reserve Hospital at Homburg . |
| 22 | Fair Isle first came into prominence as a bird migration station as long ago as 1912 , following publication of a book by William Eagle-Clarke , keeper of the natural history department of the Royal Scottish Museum . |
| 23 | From New Bond Street I drove down to historic Cliveden near Taplow , for many years the home of the Astor family , which made a lovely setting for the Looking Glass Ball in aid of the Royal National Institute for the Blind 's Looking Glass Appeal . |
| 24 | Cassell continues its association with the Royal Horticultural Society by producing more Wisley Handbooks , new or in revised editions . |
| 25 | A new feature , in the grounds , is a series of sculptures exhibited in association with The Royal British Society of Sculptures . |
| 26 | Currently the course is restricted to work with plants and fungi and is run in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | The soldier had been named earlier as Mervyn Johnston , 38 , a lance corporal in the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 28 | Sheepshanks , a leading figure in the Royal Astronomical Society , himself fitted into all three of his categories : he was both a lawyer and a clergyman , and did not practise either profession because he had inherited wealth from his cloth-manufacturing father . |
| 29 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 30 | He became a scientific adviser to the Royal Horticultural Society and travelled the country attending the fungus forays of natural history societies and popularizing fungi among the public . |