Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the royal [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 2 | RUSSIAN leader Boris Yeltsin , who will address Parliament on Tuesday morning , has booked the Royal Suite at the five-star Hyde Park Hotel , Knightsbridge for himself and his wife , Naina , for his two-day visit to Britain which begins on Monday . |
| 3 | Mrs Kluge , 40 , has pursued the royal family relentlessly , to the point of buying a 75,000-acre estate next to Balmoral Castle . |
| 4 | , daughter of , farm manager at 's farm at Akenham , has won the Royal Yachting Association ‘ All England ’ Ladies ' Championship . |
| 5 | Ardent royalist Dorothy Myers , a nurse of Rochdale , Lancs , said : ‘ That woman has made the Royal Family into a laughing stock . ’ |
| 6 | It also tried to buy the Royal Bank of Scotland , but was blocked by the Bank of England , ending up instead with a 14.9% stake in Midland . |
| 7 | This research is known to have caused the Commission great concern and the Society has told the Royal Commission that it is determined to deal with the problem . |
| 8 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 9 | But by appearing to separate the royal family from most of the rest of the aristocracy , the Queen 's advisers have ensured the Windsors ' survival in a mature democratic society . |
| 10 | The Securities and Investments Board has welcomed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' decision that its members should be authorised via membership of the Securities and Futures Authority , rather than the RICS seeking recognition in its own right . |
| 11 | A WOULD-BE postie has criticised the Royal Mail for a second class service following a mix-up over job interviews . |
| 12 | One writer , who has covered the Royal Family for 12 years , said : ‘ In 30 minutes of speeches and toasts , not once did they look at each other . ’ |
| 13 | Two types have been produced by the Norwich firm of Tom Smith , which has held the Royal Warrant since 1906 . |
| 14 | Then I was asked to join the small group selected to meet the Royal personage in attendance , the Duchess of Gloucester . |
| 15 | Three weeks later his long ordeal came to an end when the new Secretary of State for Scotland , Bruce Millan , announced to the House of Commons that he had decided to exercise the Royal Prerogative of Mercy , i.e. recommend to the Queen the granting of a free Pardon . |
| 16 | Spy fever gripped the country and a couple seen sketching the Royal Albert Bridge were , as a result of information given by a boy scout to a sergeant of the Royal Scots , arrested in the nearby tea gardens and escorted to Devonport by the police . |
| 17 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 18 | During the troubled times between 1880 and 1883 , when the Fenians were active , ( the IRA of that time ) , and successive dynamite outrages were arousing consternation throughout the country , an anonymous communication was received on the eve of one of Her Majesty 's periodical journeys warning the Government that an attempt would be made to wreck the Royal Train . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Whether this new tape is fake or not , then it shows that a conspiracy is operating to discredit the Royal Family and Diana and Charles in particular . |
| 20 | We have already seen that there were times when the High Anglican interest , supposedly the natural allies of strong monarchy , sought to challenge the powers of the Crown in order to protect the interests of the established Church ; we have also seen that Nonconformist and Whig politicians , who during the Exclusion Crisis became the champions of Parliamentarianism , had at times shown themselves prepared to defend the royal prerogative against Parliamentary limitation when it was being used to protect the interests of the Dissenters . |
| 21 | Parliament eventually agreed to rescind the royal supremacy in November 1554 , but fears that the papacy might renege on the land settlement persisted . |
| 22 | You 're over here to help organize the royal visit . ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Robinson , who became Ireland 's first woman president in 1990 , has frequently said she would like to visit the Royal Family and receive visits from them in return . |
| 24 | WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP THE ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION WITH A LEGACY ? |
| 25 | Tagore wrote of this poem — ‘ The feeling that man is not a mere casual visitor at the palace-gate of the world , but the invited guest whose presence is needed to give the royal banquet its sole meaning , is not confined to any particular sect in India . |
| 26 | The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising — at our vast expense . |
| 27 | Nowadays , if staying overnight far away from any of the royal residences , she tends to use the royal train , but lord lieutenants continue to be drawn from the same big houses . |
| 28 | They are not going to change the royal mind . |
| 29 | The set is in the shape of a giant book , whose pages open to reveal the Royal Palace , a dungeon , the cellar of a former teacher , Mr Nibbs , and the river , beyond which lies the democratic Singing Land — a country where people are able to choose their own leaders . |
| 30 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |