Example sentences of "[be] lord [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An uncle had been Lord Mayor of York . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ I do n't want to be Lord Mayor of London . |
| 3 | Prime Minister has it in mind to recommend to Your Majesty the appointment of Fotherington-Smythe to be Lord Lieutenant of Borsetshire . ’ |
| 4 | It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists . |
| 5 | With Sir Walter — soon to be Lord Marshall of Goring and known also to environmentalists as ‘ The Dark Lord ’ — leading the scientific battles of claim and counter-claim , at times the acid rain issue seemed to follow a pantomime script full of cries of ‘ oh yes you did ’ and ‘ oh no we did n't ’ . |
| 6 | Previous recipients of the award are Lord Houghton of Sowerby PC CH , Ruth Harrison OBE and Eileen Bezet . |
| 7 | Above : Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Royal Navy 's blocking raid on Zeebrugge are Lord Keyes of Dover and Zeebrugge ( front row , second left ) and former P&O European Ferries Freight Manager at Zeebrugge , Charles Claeys ( far right ) . |
| 8 | He has been Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk since 1978 , and lord lieutenants are guaranteed a seat in the emergency underground seats of government . |
| 9 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , who has a full-time job as Governor of the Bank of England in addition to being Lord Lieutenant of Kent , sits on an estate of 2,400 acres . |
| 10 | A case involving the United Kingdom where this was done is Lord Bruce of Donington v. Aspden , case 208/80 , applying the Protocol on privileges and immunities of the European Communities . |
| 11 | As long as Shaftesbury was lord president of the council he found no difficulty in reconciling his loyalties , and even after that earl 's dismissal in October 1679 , he was used , following an hour 's private conversation with the king alone in the royal bedchamber , in trying to bring Charles and the earl together again . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Also deprived of his vote ( under the peerage restriction ) was Lord Alexander of Weedon , chairman of the NatWest Bank . |
| 14 | There was Lord Scarman of liberal renown , but also Lord Devlin . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the past I have done many portraits on commission — the last was Lord Flowers of Imperial College , London — but nowadays I will not accept commissions . |