Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also giving powerful performances are John Altman as Tippy Gray , Jacquie Toye as Chaplin 's mother and Emlyn Harris as the grown-up Syd Chaplin . |
| 2 | Both played in the Joshua Tetley Trophy match at Scarborough last September , which Essex won by 154 runs , but the only other survivors are John Glendenen and Simon Brown , who won the man-of-the-match award . |
| 3 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 4 | When John Pilkington farmed land in Rossendale ( Lancs. ) his sureties were John Huddleston of Millom , William Plumpton of Plumpton and William Hopton of Swillington ( Yorks . ) . |
| 5 | Among his recruits were John Randall and Harry Boot . |
| 6 | He was a pupil at Westminster School from 1772 , and ( as captain of the school ) matriculated thence at Christ Church in 1782 ; his college tutors were John Randolph [ q.v. ] and Phineas Pett , later his canonical colleagues . |
| 7 | His parents were John Halpin ( Halfpenny ) and Margaret Magennis ( McGuinness ) who married on October 21 , 1849 , at St. Matthew 's , Belfast , and emigrated to Australia with their sons on April 15 , 1863 , from Liverpool on board the ‘ Montmorency ’ . |
| 8 | An English critic who attempted the task of keeping a balance between his political convictions and his aesthetic responses was John Berger , who wrote in the 1950s for the New Statesman . |
| 9 | The guru behind these startling revelations was John Burland , Professor of Soil Science at London 's Imperial College of Science and Technology , and a member of the latest commission to examine the problem . |
| 10 | Most prominent among the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was John Robinson , the Bishop of Southwark , whose book , Honest to God , divided theological opinion when it was published in the early 1960s . |
| 11 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 12 | The culmination of these explorations was John Cabot 's discovery of Newfoundland in 1497 , an event which contemporaries clearly recognized as a major achievement . |
| 13 | The main published sources of Gaelic plant names are John Cameron 's out of print compilation The Gaelic Names of Plants ( Blackwood and Sons , Edinburgh and London , 1883 ; 2nd ed. , John Mackay , Glasgow , 1900 ) and Edward Dwelly 's The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary ( 1901–11 , and often reprinted , most recently in 1988 by Gairm Publications , Glasgow ) . |
| 14 | Among the many modern practitioners are John Nash , Paul Nash , Eric Gill , Stephen Gooden , Eric Ravilious , Reynolds Stone , Agnes Miller Parker , Blair Hughes-Stanton , Cecil Buller and John J.A . |
| 15 | THE LAWYERS are John Beveridge QC and his instructing solicitor , Andrew Nitch-Smith . |
| 16 | Best Juniors were John Quinn and Sean Mullan ( boys ) and Anne McCall and Southend clubmate Orla Camplissan ( girls ) . |
| 17 | The Honorary Members were John Couch Adams , the astronomer ; William Crookes , the chemist , of whom we shall hear more ; W. E. Gladstone , Prime Minister again early in that year in the midst of the Irish Home Rule struggles ; John Ruskin ; Lord Tennyson ; A. R. Wallace , the co-discoverer of natural selection ; and G. F. Watts , the painter . |
| 18 | Among the Oratorians ' most celebrated members was John Henry Newman , whose conversion from Anglicanism did much to serve the cause of English Catholicism . |
| 19 | Some of the others who eventually became well-known architects were John J. Stevenson , Charles Hodgson Fowler , Robert Johnson , and Scott 's own sons George Gilbert and John Oldrid . |
| 20 | Among the first to respond to the new President 's call for 75,000 men was John MacArthur , born in Elderslie in Renfrewshire , and Commander of the Highland Guard of Chicago . |
| 21 | The others are John Bellak , chairman of Severn Trent , and Edward Smith , a director of Waterglade International . |
| 22 | The two claimants were John de Montfort , younger half-brother of John III , and John III 's niece Joan of Penthiévre , who was married to Charles of Blois . |
| 23 | Runners-up were John Farrow and David Kerswall of Bury St Edmunds with 39 points . |
| 24 | Among her mentors were John Elliot Cairnes , W. Leonard Courtney , and W. A. Hunter [ qq.v. ] , from whom she learned an attachment to laissez-faire economics and liberal political principles . |
| 25 | The victims were John Dale , ‘ the object of dislike and hatred apparently because he was in the habit of ripping people off in drugs deals ’ , and police informant David Norris . |