Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] lord [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many had fathers who were lord lieutenants before them . |
| 2 | And he went to , he decided to go straight to Oxford before he came back to Galashiels and er see William Morris who was Lord Nuffield later on . |
| 3 | And — who was Lord Fiske of the Decimal Currency Board ( ah , glorious corporatist Labour party designation , The Decimal Currency Board ) and why did he say that ‘ All was going well ’ when nobody except the very young or very bright could understand a thing ? |
| 4 | But a little later Lord Sankey , who was Lord Chancellor from 1929 to 1935 , when resignations occurred , replaced five Law Lords who had had political backgrounds by others whose reputations rested on their professionalism as lawyers . |
| 5 | One was Lord Parker ( who had just retired as Lord Chief Justice ) and another was Lord Gardiner ( who had been Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 6 | There was Lord Weymouth ( without shoes , of course ) John Berkeley , of Berkeley Castle , the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and Pat Smythe , one of my great sporting heroines when she took part in the Bideford Horse Show and I was the cub reporter covering the event . |
| 7 | There was Lord Scarman of liberal renown , but also Lord Devlin . |
| 8 | The last Trade Secretary to use it was Lord Cockfield , but his successor in 1982 , Cecil Parkinson , abandoned it completely . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it was Lord Rawlinson , the Lord Chancellor manque and former Attorney General ? |
| 10 | I believe in taking action on fact and not fantasy , but I think it was Lord Zuckerman who was the scientific advisor to the government , who said that government has never taken preventive measures that would prove to be unjustified , and if you always wait to the last moment before being convinced to do anything , that 's often a moment too late . |
| 11 | No , it was Lord Lucan in drag . |
| 12 | When it was Lord Thurso 's time to speak he was able to joke " Your Territorial Commander and I see eye to eye . |
| 13 | It was Lord Clive of India who bought the estate in 1760 from Lord Herbert ( he had already acquired the Walcot estate to add to his patrimony of Styche ) , and directed his agent to improve the whole property . |
| 14 | When the proposal to create life peers — and peeresses — came before the full House of Lords , it was Lord Glasgow who formulated the classic argument . |
| 15 | I say ‘ ironical ’ because it was Lord Diplock who , in his address to the Holdsworth Society in 1965 , observed : |
| 16 | ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench . |
| 17 | Sir Thomas , you see , was so very much a local philanthropist , a local administrator , indeed he was Lord Lieutenant I believe , some time in the ‘ seventies . |
| 18 | He was lord mayor in 1570–1 , when he was knighted , and again in 1591 , when he stepped in on the death of a mayor in mid-term . |