Example sentences of "in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garden was admired by John Evelyn [ q.v. ] in 1655 , while John Aubrey [ q.v. ] gave a lengthy illustrated account of the estate in his Perambulation of Surrey ( 1673 ) . |
| 2 | In the 16th century we find Lambarde , who resided near the ferry in Halling House , stating in his Perambulation of Kent , " And now , for want of a bridge at Halling , we may use the ferry and touch at Wouldham " . |
| 3 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me find that letter first , ’ said Vic , riffling blindly through the papers in his Pending-tray , playing for time . |
| 5 | He promised to release the empty flats in his row of Chelsea houses tomorrow if guaranteed repossession within 48 hours by some sort of contract . |
| 6 | It is one of a group from an unidentified binder who incorporated his initials , R B. , in his cover decorations and has twice interwoven them here . |
| 7 | I 'll put this bean bag in back in his cover |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , though deplorably , British and also many American readers continued to ignore Eliot 's French affinities , following instead the hints that Eliot had dropped for their benefit in his criticism , implying his kinship with such solidly English writers as Donne and Webster . |
| 9 | One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention . |
| 10 | Midani has the support of another director , Nigel Burrows , who has been outspoken in his criticism of Knighton and the chaos at the club . |
| 11 | Though Berkeley mentions the scholastics , ‘ those great masters of abstraction ’ , it is Locke on whom he particularly focuses in his criticism of abstract ideas . |
| 12 | Paisley had broken with Kilfedder because he had not been sufficiently outspoken in his criticism of O'Neill . |
| 13 | Much to his credit , the author is even-handed in his criticism of conservative evangelical and ecumenical groups for the rationalisations ( theological and promotional ) which both employ in justifying or covering up non-growth situations ’ ( IRM April 1971:127 ) . |
| 14 | It is a perspective that Freeman in his criticism of Mead totally failed to appreciate , and one that might have reduced the savagery of his attack . |
| 15 | Campeanu was outspoken in his criticism of the idea that dollars channelled through private corporations should be accepted . |
| 16 | He is unsparing in his criticism of the arms-for-hostages operation ( though he is disappointingly brief about the linked support for Nicaragua 's contras ) . |
| 17 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , in his criticism of subcultural theory Matza favoured a return to the less deterministic , less differentiated view of the criminal that was characteristic of classical criminology though , in his later work ( Matza , 1969 ) he moved to a more fully indeterminist view . |
| 18 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 19 | Anthony ( 1977 , p.9 ) was quite adamant in his criticism of ZBB when he stated : ‘ The new parts are not good , and the good parts are not new … zero-base budgeting is a fraud . ’ |
| 20 | Editor , — I write to support Duncan M Williams in his criticism of the ineffectiveness of our GMC negotiators . |
| 21 | Nizan was quite explicit , for example , in his criticism of Pierre Laval . |
| 22 | In private , the lenders bristled , but Mike Blackburn , chief executive of Leeds Permanent Building Society was outspoken in his criticism of the Government . |
| 23 | He was scathing in his criticism of colleagues whose work did not match these standards . |
| 24 | This conception was formulated by Max Weber , in Economy and Society ( 1921 ) , though in a rather fragmentary manner , and was expressed also in his criticism of German politics in Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed Germany ( 1919 ) . |
| 25 | Similarly , Poulantzas in his criticism of Miliband insisted strongly upon the character of the state and social classes as ‘ objective structures ’ , conceived individuals only as the ‘ bearers ’ of ‘ objective instances ’ , and rejected those alternative conceptions which introduce the purposes of conscious social actors into the analysis . |
| 26 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 27 | Vincent Currie , the SDLP vice-chairman of Dungannon District Council , was outspoken in his criticism of the behaviour of members of the regiment in Coalisland last year . |
| 28 | Earlier , Mandela had been forthright in his criticism of US support for the Angolan rebel movement UNITA [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 29 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 30 | Toubert is doubtless correct in his criticism that Pfaff 's estimate of the income of the papacy — made on the basis of the Liber Censuum — is in fact inclusive of many " ghost monies " ; compiled over many years , rather than an actual account . |