Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] ' company " in BNC.

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1 " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . "
2 I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company .
3 The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ .
4 Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 .
5 He was a Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company in 1467 and 1471 , becoming Prime Warden in 1476 .
6 The visit originated at the request of Sir George Courthope , Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , who expressed to the Headmaster his wish that the boys should have the opportunity to see this fine example of the work of the Company .
7 On Founder 's Day in 1972 the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , the Viscount Amory , and the Clerk to the Company , Mr. W.A. Prideaux , journeyed from London to open the new Hall , and afterwards inspected the new buildings and met masters and boys .
8 Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon .
9 He received decorations from many allied states , including the Legion of Honour ( 1918 ) , and was a freeman of the Goldsmiths ' Company .
10 He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 .
11 William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 .
12 He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 .
13 By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier .
14 Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ .
15 He was a member of the Haberdashers ' Company , and prospered from various sectors of English commerce , both traditional and novel .
16 he was apprenticed to his uncle , Thomas Stanton ( 1610–1674 ) , master of the Masons ' Company in 1660 and founder of the sculptors ' yard in the parish of St Andrew , Holborn , of which Stonecutter Street possibly marks the site .
17 The second son , William , became a master of the Musicians ' Company , and the third , Charles , played cricket for Middlesex and England .
18 A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company .
19 The 470th Master of the Clothworkers ' Company Sir Peter Gadsden , a former Lord Mayor of London ; and the Master of the Clockmakers ' Company Mr Alan Henn , entertained guests to ‘ A Shropshire Dinner ’ at Salters Hall , in the City of London .
20 During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company .
21 His father was active in City companies , and was master of the Carpenters ' Company in 1906 .
22 He had a son , Edmund , who became free by patrimony of the Grocers ' Company in 1758 .
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