Example sentences of "william [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrd and his master Tallis ( see p. 242 ) , Morley and William Mundy ( c. 1529–c. 1591 ) composed both ; the church music of William 's son John ( c. 1552–1630 ) is overwhelmingly English ; and that of Byrd 's pupil Thomas Tomkins ( 1572–1656 ) , Thomas Weelkes ( c. 1575–1623 ) , and Orlando Gibbons ( 1583–1625 ) is entirely so . |
| 2 | We sat in silence , watching William play and listening to the sound of insects . |
| 3 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 4 | William Temple and Fisher at Repton were among the late manifestations of this feeling . |
| 5 | A legend was afterwards believed that William Temple converted Ramsey in a mission to the university in February 1926 . |
| 6 | William Temple , the future Archbishop of Canterbury , then Bishop of Manchester , fat , jolly , eloquent , and philosophical , should be the chief missioner and give his talks for a week in the university church , Great St Mary 's . |
| 7 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 8 | The admiration for the mind and personality of William Temple . |
| 9 | It was the one time when he doubted William Temple . |
| 10 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 11 | ‘ It was rather exasperating that the great and radical William Temple soft-pedalled . |
| 12 | William Temple ran a mission on the Blackpool sands , preaching from a tub to the buckets and spades . |
| 13 | — and then comes a list of benefactors : Carter the Congregationalist minister , and Henry Balmforth the sixth form master at Repton , and Geoffrey Fisher the headmaster at Repton , mother , father , Frank his brother , Jimmie Seaton the head of Cuddesdon , Tommy Strong in whose chapel he then meditated , John How at Liverpool ; the institutions , Cuddesdon and Magdalene , his home , and his Bible ; his special teachers William Temple and Charles Raven ( Hoskyns , note well , is not mentioned ) ; and then gratitude for his crosses : the troubles of school-days , the death , ‘ the desolation ’ , the anxieties and wearinesses in Liverpool , ‘ tiresome boys ’ . |
| 14 | Lincoln brought in the big guns of William Temple to get bishop and rector to release the curate before the time . |
| 15 | The letter which he valued most came from the leader of English theology , who was now Archbishop of York , William Temple : ‘ Men ought to acknowledge their major obligations , and so I write to thank you ... ’ |
| 16 | This contrast was pointed by William Temple . |
| 17 | William Temple got him an honouring invitation , as a delegate to the vast ecumenical conference at Edinburgh in 1937 . |
| 18 | He asked the opinion of William Temple about filling the chair . |
| 19 | The faculty of divinity at Durham had as Ramsey 's predecessor Oliver Quick , who with William Temple was a leading mind in the Church of England . |
| 20 | Successive kings had no reason to grumble , cathedral chapters were happy to elect , and the Church of England was given good leaders — William Temple of York and George Bell of Chichester among them . |
| 21 | As with William Temple , who looked equally natural in gaiters and apron , the bubbling humour and lack of pomposity heightened the effect of the personality . |
| 22 | Lover of Christian unity , friend of the European leaders , ally of the Germans who stood against Hitler , courageous critic of area bombing , patron of art and theatre , compassionate over refugees , he was the only bishop in England that the world had known about since William Temple died . |
| 23 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 24 | And the memory that William Temple used to meditate in the garden was not trivial to him . |
| 25 | William Temple , while Archbishop of York , wrote in the York Quarterly , a journal which expired in the first year of the Second World War . |
| 26 | The orator mentioned his debt to William Temple and to Edward Wynn , and his wit , and gargantuan laugh . |
| 27 | He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple . |
| 28 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 29 | The unlocking of this particular problem owed much to the skill of R. A. Butler and William Temple , the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 30 | The Conservatives were critical of the appointment of William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1942 . |