Examples of use of GBE
1. In 1'83 she became the first woman Lord Mayor of London and was appointed GBE.
2. James‘s Place, "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon Nathaniel Rothschild." Tickets to the invitation–only event cost $1,000 to $2,300.
3. It would put Mrs Blair on a par with Winston Churchill’s wife Clementine, who was granted the rare GBE in 1'46, a year after her husband won the Second World War.
4. He is styled Sir Cyril Taylor, GBE, which stands for Knight Grand Cross in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the second gong being a cut above your plain Knight Bachelor.) He sounds like an opportunist, but nobody who knows him thinks he is.
5. According to the source, officials were alarmed by a suggestion that Mrs Blair could get the highest form of damehood – a Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire (known as a GBE) – as she had served nearly twice as long in No10 as John Major’s wife, Norma, who received a conventional damehood.