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固有名詞

Bank of England

1. The central bank of the United Kingdom.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Pequod Meets the Virgin”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 393:

     Don't ye love sperm? There goes three thousand dollars, men!—a bank!—a whole bank! The bank of England!

   • 1857 John Ramsay McCulloch, A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications, page 31

     It is this which keeps a country bank note always of the same value as a Bank of England note.

   • 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XVIII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., OCLC 271444, page 182:

     ["]Have you some secret project in your head which requires a Bank of England back of it to make it succeed?" […] ["...] It's just mind-reading,—that's what it is, though you may not know it. Because I have got a private project that requires a Bank of England at its back. How could you divine that? What was the process? This is interesting."

   • 1871 March–April​, Henry James, Jr., “A Passionate Pilgrim”, in A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 31 January 1875, OCLC 3886198, chapter I, page 9:

     On the floor was a Turkey carpet,—as old as the mahogany, almost, as the Bank of England, as the Queen,—into which the waiter in his lonely revolutions had trodden so many massive sootflakes and drops of overflowing beer, that the glowing looms of Smyrna would certainly not have recognized it.

   • 1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, OCLC 459139804, part I (The Window), page 16:

     [F]or there was in all their minds a mute questioning of deference and chivalry, of the Bank of England and the Indian Empire, of ringed fingers and lace, […]

   • 1994, Ralph Moody, Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover, page 95

     We're putting in enough new capital to make this little bank as strong as The Bank of England.

   • 2003, Stephen Coonts, Liberty, page 26

     The Walney's Bank building in the heart of Cairo was a small replica of the Bank of England building in London, and in that setting it jarred the eye.

2. The building in Threadneedle Street that houses it.
   • 1936, Karel Čapek, War with the Newts, page 195

     Hitherto the British islander has been anxiously watching the skies, the only direction from where he thought disaster might come to his flourishing cities, to his Bank of England or to his peaceful cottages, snug under their perpetual green cover of ivy.

   • 2014, "Bank of England architect Sir John Soane's models to go on display", Telegraph, November 8

     Soane, who designed the Bank of England and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, used some of the miniature models as teaching tools for his pupils.

   • 2016, "London’s Bank of England gets long overdue façade renovation", European Cleaning Journal, September 12

     One of London’s best-known landmarks, The Bank of England, has had a much-needed facelift thanks to a substantial exterior clean carried out by cleaning and restoration specialist Thomann-Hanry.

   • 2019, "Amid Its Breakneck Expansion, WeWork Finds that Banks Need More Convincing, Fortune, March 29

     Bank of Ireland Group Plc recently made a loan secured against the No. 1 Poultry building, a stone’s throw from the Bank of England in the heart of London’s financial district, even though all the office space is leased to WeWork.

   • 2019, "Watch Idris Elba Cameo in Stormzy's Video for 'Vossi Bop'", Rolling Stone, April 26

     He's joined by a group of young dancers as he appears in front of the Bank of England and takes a shot at Boris Johnson

   • 2019, "Investment company taking 40% commission shut down", International Adviser, May 24

     In November 2018, the company vacated its office on Threadneedle Street in London without informing its landlord, but continued to market itself as being based there – a stone’s throw from the Bank of England.

   • 2019, "Seven of London's most sustainable buildings", The London Economic, June 11

     The building – set on 3.2 acres between the Bank of England and St. Paul’s Cathedral – is a ten-storey facility

同意語

• Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
• (central bank): BOE, BofE, Threadneedle Street
• (building): Threadneedle Street