Sentence examples for supernumerary from inspiring English sources

IN OPPOSITION, David Cameron was adamant: Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, north London should be spared "reconfiguration"—NHS jargon for merging or closing failing or supernumerary hospitals.

Gordon Brown and Labour seem to be entering this supernumerary phase the phase of having stayed too long.Until April 23rd the government faced a humiliating parliamentary defeat over its abolition of the 10p income-tax band, a change that will leave several million poor people worse off a botched reform that, say MPs of all parties, voters bitterly resent.

Foreign recipients in the classes higher than chevalier are supernumerary.

It may result from the operation of pneumatic hammers or may occur in individuals with various disorders, such as a cervical rib, a supernumerary (extra) rib arising from a neck vertebra.

However, the more subtle supernumerary bows weak arcs of light occasionally seen below the primary arc of colours are caused by diffraction effects in the water droplets that form the rainbow.

James O'Neill made his stage debut as a supernumerary in a Cincinnati, Ohio, production of The Colleen Bawn (1867).

Nineteenth-century Paris was to foster and witness the birth of "grand opera," an international style of large-scale operatic spectacle employing historical or pseudohistorical librettos and filling the stage with elaborate scenery and costumes, ballets, and multitudes of supernumeraries.

Membership was expanded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to include supernumeraries such as members of the royal family (known as Royal Knights Companion), certain other chosen lineal descendants of King George I, and foreigners (known as extra knights).

(Actually, it's better to have the festive meal in the evening, after the bludgers, freeloaders and supernumeraries – the technical term is "children" – have gone to bed. But you didn't think of that, did you? So lunch it is).

The director, Emma Rice, and playwrights, Carl Grose and Anna Maria Murphy, are less interested in these lovers than in the story's spurned supernumeraries — Mark, the maid Brangian, Tristan's neglected wife.

In "The Rules of the Game," the servants, though vibrantly sketched, are blundering supernumeraries who bask in their masters' good opinion and make history only by accident.