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- adjective Of or pertaining to Gilbert Sheldon (1598–1677), Archbishop of Canterbury and university chancellor, who provided financial backing for the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
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Examples
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On the uncomfortable wooden seats of the Sheldonian, my whole life unfolded.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive.
tingilinde: 2010
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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive.
on free speech 2010
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One day my new student, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, asked me if I would like to go to a concert in the Sheldonian Theatre, a seventeenth-century building by Christopher Wren that is one of the architectural jewels of Oxford.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive.
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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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It's not clear that such ventriloquism is precisely what the graduate voters of Oxford want to see in the Sheldonian, but perhaps Hill or Haldane don't have the job in the bag quite yet.
Vietnam still sells, especially when coupled to old publishing practices 2010
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U.K. on May 30: His Holiness will give a public talk at the Sheldonian Theatre on the wider understanding of the Buddhist tradition.
Archive 2010
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U.K. on May 30: His Holiness will give a public talk at the Sheldonian Theatre on the wider understanding of the Buddhist tradition.
Archive 2010
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Instead, sitting in the Sheldonian Theatre last night, where England's first Queen Elizabeth once bestowed awards on subjects who pleased her, I watched this year's Skoll Foundation Award recipients graciously accept the recognition bestowed on them and realized that my work had been done for me.
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