Example sentences of "[was/were] lord [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many had fathers who were lord lieutenants before them . |
| 2 | As many as 350 attended such functions and amongst members and guests were Lord Middleton , Brigadier-General Spears , Sir John Squire , the Earl of Iddesleigh , Lord Russell of Liverpool and Sir Charles Petrie . |
| 3 | Also present were Lord Romsey , Patron of the NCH Birthday Year , and Lady Romsey , looking beautiful in a red evening dress ; the Principal of the NCH the Reverend Michael Newman , Mr John Gray the Director of Advocacy of the NCH ; and the Chairman of the evening Mr Derek Hunt . |
| 4 | Among others at the dinner and lecture were Lord Romsey , Mr and Mrs Stephen Moore , he is Chairman of BVA and CBS ; the Duchess of Roxburghe the Patron of NCH Scotland ; the Hon. |
| 5 | Some well-known producers were Lord von der Teck , Arco Torfwerk and Hackel v Kohlerwald . |
| 6 | The two heroes of the Journal were Lord Castlereagh and Wellington . |
| 7 | Can all those bracing ‘ think European ’ messages have fallen on completely stony ground , and were Lord Young , Alan Sugar and Sir John Harvey-Jones just wasting their breath and the tax-payers ' money ? |
| 8 | The father of which actor was Lord Chancellor and president of Wimbledon Football Club ? |
| 9 | Lord Halsbury was Lord Chancellor for far longer than any other during the last hundred years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The Chairman , however , was Lord Lloyd , a fiery patriot and Anglo-Catholic , with whom Eliot was quite well acquainted . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Its first director was Lord Rothschild and its staff was drawn both from the civil service and from outside Whitehall . |
| 17 | The chairman was Lord Renwick ( of Associated Television ) and the Chief Executive Director was to be Geoffrey Pardoe , the Project Manager of the just-cancelled Blue Streak rocket . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | His dog-leg patrimony ( his uncle was Lord Chelmsford ) has enabled him to support himself and to help some others . |
| 20 | Or perhaps it was Lord Rawlinson , the Lord Chancellor manque and former Attorney General ? |
| 21 | The last Trade Secretary to use it was Lord Cockfield , but his successor in 1982 , Cecil Parkinson , abandoned it completely . |
| 22 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 23 | She pretended a greater surprise than she felt that the leader of those upon the bridle path was Lord Wyatt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Florio was Lord Southampton 's Italian teacher . |
| 26 | But more dramatic and more political was Lord Salmon 's contribution in 1975 to the debates on the government 's controversial Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Another commentator on the troubles of earlier centuries was Lord Curzon , later to become Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary . |
| 29 | Also deprived of his vote ( under the peerage restriction ) was Lord Alexander of Weedon , chairman of the NatWest Bank . |
| 30 | Mr Gray said the fact of the repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria in May and June 1945 was accepted , but what was at issue was Lord Aldington 's role , and the allegation that he knew that they would be killed . |