Example sentences of "been lord [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | An uncle had been Lord Mayor of York . |
| 3 | Another catalyst in London 's career may have been Lord Essex , who , with his gardener Moses Cook , laid out a forest garden at Cassiobury in 1677 . |
| 4 | The most outstanding judge in my lifetime has been Lord Reed . |
| 5 | ( Missolonghi , on the mainland opposite , had been Lord Byron 's pied-รก-terre , where he died in 1824 , with whom Leonard shared much , romantically and in the fuller Romantic sense . ) |
| 6 | He has been Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk since 1978 , and lord lieutenants are guaranteed a seat in the emergency underground seats of government . |
| 7 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 8 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 9 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 10 | McGee had summoned the Dean , but it had been Lord Cumbermound who had led the party down the back stairs . |