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Sentence Examples Both establishment and maintenance of silencing depend on cis-acting elements known as silencers that nucleate assembly of a SIR complex. Over at her exclusive Jalouse bash this week I hear Mariah cocked up big time when Topshop boss SIR PHILLIP GREEN ran over to introduce himself. Sir Richard Thompson received a knighthood for his post as head of the Queen's medical household and physician to the Queen. The Welsh rugby fan said he was delighted to meet Sir Clive Woodward, who was at the palace to receive his knighthood. Sir David Steel gave an address at the memorial service for Nigel Tranter, the noted author who died in January. He became tutor to the children of Sir John Walsh of Old Sodbury, but soon removed to London and the continent, visiting Luther at Wittenberg. Do you sir, agree with this punishment which would involve the admonishment of a member of your own party? It is submitted by Sir Derek Spencer on behalf of the appellant that the Recorder of London was wrong to rule as he did. Sir Yehudi later recorded this piece again under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult in the same studio. Nobody has any statutory power to appoint an executor or administrator of a will, except a testator, sir. Sir Howard was knighted last year, largely for helping bring the Commonwealth Games to Manchester. Sir, my research indicates that there is no code of dress prescribed or agreed upon for attorneys appearing in the magistrates court. Sir Michael intends to reconvene his inquiry in six months to check the progress of his recommendations. Sir Titus Salt kept a watchful eye over a panel of beer tasters judging a competition to recreate a brew in his honour yesterday. Leading the North Yorkshire awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, published today, is the county's newest knight, Sir Robert Ogden. Mug shots of prisoners in the Terrace Gaol are featured along with a caricature of Wellywood movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson. He promises to repay the robbed travellers, and undertakes to obtain Sir John a place in the King's army during the impending civil war. Elaine did not seem to hear Lynette, as she continued to babble on about Sir Lancelot. As characters go, Sir Arthur is the saviour, but, in some ways, it is George who is the truest of the bunch. Flash In The Pan, Buffed, and Recapitalize were well away in a very open field of 13, with favorite Sir Dex trapped wide toward the rear. Show More Sentences Darwin may rest augustly beside Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, while Wallace lies modestly in the little cemetery in Broadstone. Newcastle boss Sir Bobby Robson will use the transfer window to attempt to strengthen his attacking resources. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was quite the Renaissance man himself, created the character and his many stories. When he died in 1995, she and her younger brother, Te Rakaherea, became the guardians of Sir Maui's writings, his taonga and even his mana. In 1962, in Sir David's final year at university, he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pentlands. Her late cousin, Sir William Staveley, was an Admiral of the Fleet. If Rodney Hide wins the ACT leadership, as I personally think will happen, then Sir Roger's influence as a policy wonk and powerbroker is essentially at an end. The new exhibition hall, shaped like a submarine and named after the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fieldhouse, is due to open in July next year. Hollywood can't get enough of Wellywood, with stars of The Hobbit gushing praise for director Sir Peter Jackson at the film's world premiere in his hometown of Wellington. When Sir Warwick and Lady Mary Fairfax decided they no longer needed their weekender property, they wanted to turn it into an ideal suburban community. In a fit of adulation I tell Sir John how much I enjoyed his work. Indian officials believe the British-administered Sindh and the Kutch state had signed an agreement in 1914 which had demarcated the boundary midway through Sir Creek. As recently as 1998, having led them to an improbably high 11 th place finish, he was being touted as a long-term contender to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. Even if this Alexander fellow had saved her from the shady Grim character, she doubted that he would have withheld information from the great Sir Marcus Grigsby. For example Sir Hal Colebatch's first major speech in the Senate, on November 22, 1929, had urged Australia to help fund completion of the base, including landward defences. He actually made 191 runs, and in so doing eclipsed the record previously held by Sir Vivian Richards as the most prolific West Indian batsman ever! Acclaim for the film of Sir Hector's last expedition was gradually wheedling stray young men like sated woodworms, into the light of potential dangers. Sir Thomas Beecham was the first great Delius conductor on records. Sir Tom is expected to sing Delilah and Mama Told Me Not To Come and Robbie Williams will perform Mack The Knife. He soon had Sir Michael Stoute's charge on the rails and allowed him to make up the ground steadily, but he could not peg back Kandidate and went down by a length. Show More Sentences When it was last in power in the 1990s, under Sir John Major, it was tainted by sleaze. Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson. It was founded by artist Sir William Blake Richmond, frustrated with the pall cast by coal smoke. Sir John Herschel, son of the astronomer, from Kent, invented the term photography in 1839, meaning light writing. Graphene was discovered at the University of Manchester in 2004 under Prof Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov. The first world cup trophy played for in these tournaments, Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy has an interesting history of its own. The deal was signed by Britain's representative to the EU, Sir Kim Darroch, and the Scottish government. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, was one of the principal figures of Antarctic exploration. Notable mathematicians include Sir William Rowan Hamilton, famous for work in classical mechanics and the invention of quaternions. One concerns Camelot, usually envisioned as a doomed utopia of chivalric virtue, undone by the fatal flaws of Arthur and Sir Lancelot. In 1894 Sir Henry Meux put a trench through the bank, which gave the first indication that the earthwork was built in two phases. It was cast in bronze in 1902, 17 years after Thornycroft's death, by his son Sir John, who presented it to the London County Council. The siege was renewed but the city could not hold out for long, and on 15 July surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax. How can a senator, capable of doing honour to Sir Thomas Hanmer, be guilty of such ridiculous inconsistences? Sir James Holt suggests this was the inevitable result of superior French resources. Below-stairs opinion of Sir John is not divided. He is a shifty indiwiddle. As noted above, Richard appears in connection with Robin Hood in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe. Sir Robert de Crull was the last to fill this position during Edward III's reign and would have the longest tenure in this position. The story of Falstaff originated in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle, a supporter of the Lollards. Show More Sentences Between the 13th and 15th centuries Magna Carta was reconfirmed 32 times according to Sir Edward Coke, and possibly as many as 45 times. Sir Edward Coke was a leader in using Magna Carta as a political tool during this period. Sir William Blackstone published a critical edition of the 1215 Charter in 1759, and gave it the numbering system still used today. Wars of the Roses came into common use in the nineteenth century, after the publication in 1829 of Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott. Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians upon the English while Sir Edmund Andros was Governor. Sir William's elder brother, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley, was not as steadfast. Richard had come within a sword's length of Henry Tudor before being surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men and killed. When Richard began his charge, Sir William Stanley intervened from the vicinity of Stoke Golding. Northumberland, Stanley, Dorset, Sir Edward Woodville, and Richard with approximately 20,000 men took the town of Berwick almost immediately. The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Woodville, to Sir William Haute. Two days after Henry's coronation, he arrested his father's two most unpopular ministers, Sir Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley. The most prominent resisters included John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Sir Thomas More, both of whom refused to take the oath to the King. The man to lead this effort was Sir Antony St Leger, as Lord Deputy of Ireland, who would remain into the post past Henry's death. The most famous public figure to resist the Treason Act was Sir Thomas More. He made friends with the local gentry, such as Sir Ralph Horsey of Clifton Maybank and Charles Thynne of Longleat. Raleigh was brought to London from Plymouth by Sir Lewis Stukeley, where he passed up numerous opportunities to make an effective escape. In 1927, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company introduced a line of Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobaccos. General Sir John Clavering, The Honourable Sir George Monson, Sir Richard Barwell, and Sir Philip Francis. Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic. After Drake's death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham. Show More Sentences In 1580 Drake purchased Buckland Abbey, a large manor house near Yelverton in Devon, via intermediaries from Sir Richard Greynvile. In 1589, the year after defeating the Armada, Drake and Sir John Norreys were given three tasks. Additionally, the Sir Francis Drake Channel in the British Virgin Islands bears his name. Cyborg scientist Kevin Warwick is also a Coventrian, as is Sir John Egan, industrialist and former Chief Executive of Jaguar Cars. Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company. Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some questions in his accidence. He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered. Everyone was alarmed, including Sir Harry McGowan, not usually the most alarmable of men. Hearing Sir Fred the Shred and the rest of them utter some hedged half-apologies has not made the public feel any warmer to the banksters. Well, sir, believe you me, I'll give that lassy as good a strapping as ever she got when she comes back. That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration. Sir Daniel, brushing the blood out of his eyes, stared blinkingly upon his captive. But, Sir, hon. members of the government, led by that old knight of blue ruin, have done something infinitely worse than cry blue ruin. If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson. We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir. A new generation is battling through, but there are still too many Sir Bufton Tuftons at the core of the Party organisation. I am glad to have that comment, Sir. I think you have about called our number on that. Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts. My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it. Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder. Show More Sentences Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum. Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money? Hamlet. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? I may ask you, then, cordially to thank Sir George Goldie for all that he has done for the Society. A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on. Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole. Yes sir, at one minute after midnight, that holiday was over, donezo, finished, and it was time for the tree to come down. One can imagine the devout Doylist wringing his hands over every fresh appearance of Sir Arthur in the character of an exponent of spiritualism. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. In the interim, rest assured that Mr. Atherstone is by no means your friend, for he was perpetually earwigging poor Sir Rowland. Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself. No sir, your current float is not taken into account, when assets are legally garnished. Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder. Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges. Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back. Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude. Well, sir, the idea growed and growed and by the late 1920's there was Knights of the White Magnolia lodges all over Texas and parts of Oklahoma. And as I trow, said Sir Sagramore, ye shall have the same handsel that he had. Eliot, Ezra Pound and more recently British authors born abroad such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Sir Salman Rushdie. Show More Sentences Notable conductors include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Malcolm Sargent. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was Britain's commander on the Western Front. The sculptor Sir William Goscombe John made many works for Welsh commissions, although he had settled in London. By 1651 the Royalist governor, Sir John Grenville, was using the islands as a base for privateering raids on Commonwealth and Dutch shipping. And first, Sir Thomas Wroth had his cue to go high, and feel the pulse of the House. Cromwell's paternal grandfather Sir Henry Williams was one of the two wealthiest landowners in Huntingdonshire. The householders protested, and Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Bloodworth was summoned, who alone had the authority to override their wishes. It was probably through Holder that Wren met Sir Charles Scarburgh whom Wren assisted in his anatomical studies. The Lord Brouncker, Mr Boyle, Mr Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paule Neile, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Petty, Mr Ball, Mr Rooke, Mr Wren, Mr Hill. Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell were executed for treason. The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. Additionally, Jacobitism became the subject of romantic poetry and literature, notably the work of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The connection to Manchester was delayed by Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory. Nelson's aunt, Alice Nelson was the wife of Reverend Robert Rolfe, Rector of Hilborough, Norfolk and grandmother of Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe. Meanwhile, a force under Sir Thomas Troubridge had fought their way to the main square but could go no further. Nelson joined Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's fleet at Yarmouth, from where they sailed for the Danish coast in March. Henry Colley married Katherine Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He rushed to sail on the same ship as the newly appointed British commander, Sir Redvers Buller. The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style. The most prominent Conservative choices were Sir George Young and Deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst. Show More Sentences Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough. The decisions that led up to the Iraq war and its subsequent conduct are currently the subject of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry. Sir Menzies Campbell subsequently won the contest, defeating Chris Huhne and Simon Hughes, among others, in a very controversial race. In 1591 a John Phillips published A Commemoration on the life and death of the right Honourable, Sir Christopher Hatton. In 2016, Sir Geoffrey Vos succeeded Sir Terence as Chancellor on the latter's appointment as Master of the Rolls. Its head is the President of the Family Division, currently Sir James Munby. The House, however, ruled that the recipient of the peerage, Sir James Parke, was not entitled thereby to sit as a Lord of Parliament. The region can claim the world's first factory, Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. Members included Thomas Derby, Sir Piers Edgcumbe, Sir Richard Pollard and John Rowe. In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. Around 1866, William Low and Sir John Hawkshaw promoted ideas, but apart from preliminary geological studies none were implemented. The cathedral was eventually built to a simpler design by Sir Frederick Gibberd. It is named in honour of Sir John Moores, one of the founders of the Littlewoods football pools and retail group, who was a major benefactor. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel Peveril of the Peak is partly set in Derbyshire. In 1608 Sir Hugh Pollard was named as chief forester in a suit brought before the Court of Exchequer by his deputy William Pincombe. Installed as chairman in 1980, Sir John Egan is credited for Jaguar's unprecedented prosperity immediately after privatisation. In June 2009, RAF Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy suggested that the RAF fleet might only be 123 jets, instead of the 232 previously planned. Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame, was born in the town. Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy. It was chaired by Sir George Thomson and its original membership included Chadwick, along with Mark Oliphant, John Cockcroft and Philip Moon. Show More Sentences Limpeh always see those AH BENGS drive the CiBIC SiR around with their big spoiler and so many uglweee stickers. While not a formal member of the Lunar Society, Sir Joseph Banks was active in it. Jenner had sent the paper informally to Sir Joseph Banks, the Society's president, who asked Everard Home for his views. The idea of the modern hovercraft is most often associated with a British mechanical engineer Sir Christopher Cockerell. Among the reasons, Newton recalled that the idea had been discussed with Sir Christopher Wren previous to Hooke's 1679 letter. After the war, they received firm backing from a Ministry of Transport committee led by James Callaghan and Sir Arthur Young. Sir Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 proposed a series of five roads encircling the capital. Neither Bevin nor the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Sir Thomas Phillips liked working with Beveridge as both found him conceited. Maltese leaders presented the island to Sir Alexander Ball, asking that the island become a British Dominion. The lobus of Morgagni is a lobe at the base of the prostate, discovered by Morgagni, and since described by Sir Everard Home. Historically, philosophical development in the country was dominated by Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Syed, Muhammad Asad, Maududi, and Mohammad Ali Johar. The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago. Further rebuilding and restoration occurred in the 19th century under Sir George Gilbert Scott. In May 1532, Sir Thomas More resigned the chancellorship and, in June, Fisher preached publicly against the divorce. A fortnight later, his body was laid beside that of Sir Thomas More in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration with Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may have been made for each other, but they were also made to play Beethoven. The current Chief Inspector is Amanda Spielman, who was appointed in January 2017 replacing Sir Michael Wilshaw. Schlesinger, Jr, and famous lawyers such as Glanville Williams, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and Sir Edward Coke. Show More Sentences Wadham College, founded in 1610, was the undergraduate college of Sir Christopher Wren. Sir Spencer Walpole, a historian of contemporary Britain and a senior government official, had not attended any university. The original King's College London Chapel was designed by Sir Robert Smirke and was completed in 1831 as part of the King's building. Sir Robert Smirke's design of King's was sympathetic to that of Somerset House which is situated adjacent to the Strand Campus. The chapel houses the tomb of Thomas Guy, and is the resting place of English surgeon and anatomist Sir Astley Cooper. Sir Christopher Geidt will succeed the Duke of Wellington as Chairman of Council from the beginning of the 2016 academic year. King's principal, Sir Rick Trainor, deplored the behaviour, appealed to King's students to remain calm and called for no retaliation. Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. During the 18th century Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Thomas Lawrence lived and worked in Bath. When this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir John Byron, the Lieutenant of the Tower. Parliament replaced Byron with a man of their own choosing, Sir John Conyers. In 1604, the ruinous castle was given to Sir Fulke Greville by King James I and was converted into a country house. Greville was not in the castle at the time and the garrison was under the command of Sir Edward Peyto. The Norman Gatehouse was turned into a private dwelling for Sir Henry Ponsonby. The new Coventry Cathedral designed by Sir Basil Spence was consecrated in 1962 and adjoins the shell of the ancient church. The culmination of Baroque architectural forms comes with Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Important for the adoption of the style in the early 19th century was Abbotsford House, the residence the novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. In the 1920s, a board of trustees was set up under the guidance of manager Sir Henry Buckland. The Lady of the Lake sends Lancelot to King Arthur's court where he becomes a knight at the behest of Sir Gawain. Shortly after he recovers, he returns to Camelot after being found by Sir Percival and Sir Hector. Show More Sentences He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors. Guy was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton. The King ordered Sir Thomas Knyvet to conduct a search of the cellars underneath Parliament, which he did in the early hours of 5 November. Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, supervised the torture and obtained Fawkes's confession. The jury found all the defendants guilty, and the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham found them guilty of high treason. Presiding over the trial was Sir William Chapple, a senior and respected judge in his early sixties. This looks like the roof of the hotbox Sir Alec Guinness was thrown into in Bridge on the River Kwai. During his lifetime, Scott's portrait was painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and fellow Scots Sir Henry Raeburn and James Eckford Lauder. An overawed Spielberg couldn't bring himself to call him Tony, and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot. Councillor Sir Albert Bore was guest speaker at a recent Birmingham Business Focus event at the Tally Ho Conference Centre in Edgbaston. Of the younger element, Creepy for Tom Keating is a nicely bred four-year-old by Westerner out of a half-sister to Sir Oj and Otay Kawn. Two of my friends take 25 December as the holiday Newtonmas, in celebration of the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. In April, Mary was placed in the stricter custody of Sir Amias Paulet, and at Christmas she was moved to a moated manor house at Chartley. Eventually, however, the Lords combined their remaining capital and financed a settlement mission to the area led by Sir John Colleton. Sir Peter Inge was, in 1994, the last active officer to be promoted to the rank. The watchdog has insisted the chief constable's actions were justified after republicans hit out at Sir Hugh Orde's reassertions. As many as 130 landowners turned up to witness the event ranging from Sir John of Combo to Sir William Murray of Fort. By understating his actual receipts, MEHTA defrauded Sir Speedy of these fees. Sir Cyril Fred Fox was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and his first job, at the age of 16, was as a gardener. The mini-mes are well known faces around Knockhill and have been photographed with celebrities such as Dario Franchitti and Sir Jackie Stewart. Show More Sentences The Sir John Williams Collection forms the nucleus of the Library's printed books collection. Sir Peter explained to 'security' that he was 84 and undesirous of walking the 200 yards to the royal enclosure entrance and then back. Sir Michael Stoute's four-year-old colt fractured his near-fore cannon bone on the gallops in Newmarket yesterday. It also commissioned Sir Edwin Lutyens to design Abbey House as a guest house and residence for its managing director, Commander Craven. The baronial castle, built in 1866, was gifted to Ross and Cromarty County Council in 1946 by shipping magnate Sir Daniel Hamilton. Despite his myriad occupations, Sir Jonathan bridles at the label of Renaissance man. Sir Edmund Orme never blushed, and I could see that he had no capacity for embarrassment. Tundher-an-ouns, Sir, give it to us, or you'11 be afther stroking it into a wran at last, so you will. All that he did, he did under the correcting eye of Sir Charles Barry, who evidently sometimes was not overeasy to please. The first shots were heard as he did so, although Sir John Bentley in Warspite claimed that they were fired without his orders. Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs. In 1651 Parliament sent Sir Robert Blake in charge of a naval task force to retake the islands. All were members of the Church of England and all except Sir Henry Savile were clergy. Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated a Royalist uprising in Kent at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June. On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot. Once again, Sir Henry Vane was the leading catalyst for the republican cause in opposition to force by the military. For my part, I declare, Sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. In framing the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, the House of Commons were unwilling to except Sir Henry Vane, Sir. King Charles II did not keep the promise made to the house but executed the sentence of death on Sir Henry Vane the Younger. The following year Elizabeth I launched the Counter Armada, under Sir Francis Drake, but it was unsuccessful in its goals, resulting in Spain retaining naval superiority. Show More Sentences This expedition, led by Sir Francis Drake and John Norreys raided Corunna but withdrew from Lisbon after failing to coordinate its strategy effectively with the Portuguese. When Sir Walter Raleigh was released from imprisonment in 1616, he embarked on a hunt for gold in South America with strict instructions from James not to engage the Spanish. In 1998, the Sir Alexander Fleming Building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to provide a headquarters for the college's medical and biomedical research. In the Midlands, a Parliamentary force under Sir John Gell besieged and captured the cathedral city of Lichfield, after the death of the original commander, Lord Brooke. The Vote of Thanks to Sir Hyde Parker was then put, and carried, nem. con. The Order of the Garter, though a distinctly English institution, included also foreign members such as John IV, Duke of Brittany and Sir Robert of Namur. Certainly the devastation inflicted on Ireland was massive, with the best estimate provided by Sir William Petty, the father of English demography. All five of the naturally occurring noble gases were discovered at UCL by Professor of Chemistry Sir William Ramsay, after whom Ramsay Hall is named. The Macadam Building of 1975 houses the Strand Campus Students' Union and is named after King's alumnus Sir Ivison Macadam, first President of the National Union of Students. Beg your pardon, sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere. By this light, Sir, if she now would have me, I now would marry her. However, the key allegation by Sir Henry Vane that Strafford had threatened to use the Irish army to subdue England was not corroborated and on 10 April Pym's case collapsed. To his dismay, he was rebuffed by the town's Parliamentary governor, Sir John Hotham, who refused him entry in April, and Charles was forced to withdraw. Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass fardenfor any one of them. Sir John Summerson gave primacy to the Eyre Estate of St John's Wood. Henry suggested to Sir Richard Williams, who was the first to use a surname in his family, that he use Cromwell, in honour of his uncle Thomas Cromwell. Maisie, quitting Sir Claude, went over to them and, clasped in a still tenderer embrace, felt entrancingly the extension of the field of happiness. Elizabeth's father, Sir James Bourchier, was a London leather merchant who owned extensive lands in Essex and had strong connections with Puritan gentry families there. The property was offered to the society by His Majesty's Government and, as soon as Sir Joseph Banks became president in November 1778, he began planning the move. Who would believe that Mr. Gladstone shammed being ill, and that Sir Andrew Clark issued false bulletins, and that the whole thing was a barney from beginning to end. Show More Sentences Forester, John Ruskin, Radclyffe Hall, Susan Hill, Hanif Kureishi, Maureen Duffy, Khushwant Singh, Sir Leslie Stephen and the Booker Prize winner Anita Brookner. Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint. Sir John Moore Church of England School, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire. And a record crowd was there to greet stars including Liv Tyler and Sir Ian McKellen as they brought the magic of Middle Earth to a damp and chilly London. Sir Joseph Larmor, a physicist and mathematician, made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics and the electron theory of matter. The rise and fall of the earlier Tory alliance with the Jacobites forms a major part of the background for Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor. In his seminal work that made him the doyen of modern hoplology, Sir Richard Burton traces the spread of various arms and armaments of the world to ancient Egypt. His A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy was published by subscription. And so longe dured there the batayle that Sir Bors sate up all angwyshlye and behylde Sir Collegrevaunce, the good knyght, that fought with his brother for his quarell. I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights. Nelson served on the station under Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, and often came into conflict with his superior officer over their differing interpretation of the Acts. Sir Francis Pettit Smith of Kent invented the screw propeller. Napoleon attacked north along the Mediterranean coast, but Turkish defenders supported by Captain Sir Sidney Smith defeated his army at the Siege of Acre. However, the landscapists Sir Kyffin Williams and Peter Prendergast lived in Wales for most of their lives, while remaining in touch with the wider art world. Sir Christopher Wren presided over the genesis of the English Baroque manner, which differed from the continental models by clarity of design and subtle taste for classicism. These parties were led by such prominent statesmen as Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, Gladstone, Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury. Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Home Secretary Sir John Anderson was replaced by Morrison soon afterwards, in the wake of a Cabinet reshuffle as the dying Neville Chamberlain resigned. Sir Frank Brangwyn was Welsh by origin but spent little time in Wales. Sir Thomas More was the first speaker to go on to become Lord Chancellor. Show More Sentences Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn. In some versions, the Sheriff is a cowardly schemer while his assistant, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, is a more competent and determined physical threat to Robin. Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him. Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed. In May 1996, Conservative Prime Minister John Major commissioned an inquiry, led by Sir Ron Dearing, into the funding of British higher education over the next 20 years. An example of this nationalism can be seen in Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton's opening speech to Parliament in 1589 in the aftermath of the defeat of the Armada. It is instead his son Galahad who ultimately achieves the Grail to drink from, along with Lancelot's cousin Sir Bors and Sir Percival, the son of King Pellinore. The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment. Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where. Since by convention they are knighted upon appointment, socially they are addressed as Sir Forename or Dame Forename, without the prefix, The Hon. Northumberland's brothers, Sir Allen and Sir Josceline, were arrested. Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you. Torksey railway viaduct, built across the Trent in 1849, is considered to be the first box girder bridge, designed by Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet. Wintour met with the Constable of Castile, the exiled Welsh spy Hugh Owen, and Sir William Stanley, who said that Catesby would receive no support from Spain. Power shifted towards George's ministers, especially to Sir Robert Walpole, who is often considered the first British prime minister, although the title was not then in use. In 2005, she received an honorary fellowship from the Rector of London's University of Arts, Sir Michael Bichard and University Registrar Susan Asser. A royal commission was appointed in 1957 under the chairmanship of Sir Edwin Herbert to consider future local government structures in Greater London. Afterwards, Sir Eardly Wilmot had been appointed, from whom, on account of his long chairmanship of quarter-sessions, much had reasonably been expected. Of Sir Edwin Lutyens' original design, only the crypt was completed. In 1666 the Great Fire of London gutted the City of London but it was rebuilt shortly afterwards with many significant buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Find more words! 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