Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] at the royal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Michael Rutter , a prominent member of the Lawther committee which reported on lead three years ago , told a conference at the Royal Institution that ‘ it now seems ’ that the Lawther committee ‘ very substantially underestimated the risk from lead in petrol . ’ |
| 2 | In 1897 he obtained a post at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , and planned to enter Imperial College , London , with a studentship in 1898 , intending to become a botany teacher . |
| 3 | He became a student at the Royal Academy in 1868 . |
| 4 | The great promoter of such voyages in the 1860s and 1870s was William Carpenter of the University of London ; and in March 1871 he gave a Discourse at the Royal Institution on recent scientific researches in the Mediterranean , in HMS Porcupine . |
| 5 | Ah had a look at the Royal Geographical Society 's latest maps , some of the charts , too . |