Example sentences of "his [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Portrait of an artist , possibly a self-portrait ’ by Michael-Martin Drolling is one of his finest works . |
| 2 | This picture is indisputably one of his finest works and the rareness of his oeuvre ( Favretto died aged just 37 ) has fuelled expectations of a record price . |
| 3 | Several of his finest works date from these years . |
| 4 | Rather , it is the influence of the German tradition that is more apparent in ‘ Enigma ’ — particularly through Brahms , who used variation forms in many of his finest works . |
| 5 | The visit would not have been possible without their tremendous enthusiasm for our invitation , and we particularly thank John Neumeier for his determination to bring over one of his finest works . |
| 6 | He gave Johnson his economic statistics , a hundred each of sheep and goats ; twelve milch cows ; twenty-eight dry beef cattle ready to be sold , ‘ awaiting the drover ’ . |
| 7 | Fed up constantly repairing his sole pair of shoes specially built 6 years ago , John despaired of finding someone to make him another pair . |
| 8 | Denied a looking-glass to refine one 's sense of self , one may feel the desperation of the French photographer in the Beirut hostage drama ( screened as the opening film in the general programme ) ‘ Hors La Vie ’ when his mirror , his sole means of retaining his identity , was smashed by his captors . |
| 9 | John Errington , Glasgow Centre Manager , took charge of Scottish Region with Tom Torrance transferring from Inverness to be his Regional Sales Manager ; Richard Hill left Preston Centre to become Regional Manager of Northern Region in Manchester and Gordon Neal moved from Birmingham Centre to London to head up the Southern Region . |
| 10 | But he is intent now on presenting Instead , he preferred to dwell on his newly manufactured a softer image and even turned up for his press conference in an , admittedly immaculate , white tracksuit instead of his normal £2,000 Saville Row variety . |
| 11 | More often , coordination of book provision is the responsibility of the area librarian , working through some or all of his professional staff . |
| 12 | Para 5.2.2 After ‘ … his professional staff ’ add and other RBGE staff |
| 13 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 14 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 15 | Twice as many members as usual have come in and poor old Gooseneck 's trying to manage with half his usual staff . |
| 16 | Wainfleet ignored his usual perch and followed her to a shadowed corner . |
| 17 | Mr Ellis created his strange works of art on site . |
| 18 | Of his collaborative works with Herbert , Marble Hill and the White Lodge are classic examples of the first-generation Anglo-Palladian villa , of which the former in particular was to be a highly influential model amongst later designers ; while the bridge at Wilton is one of the most perfect and most memorably inventive of all Anglo-Palladian images , and was to be faithfully copied on four occasions — at Stowe ( by 1742 ) , Prior Park , Bath ( 1756 ) , Hagley ( by 1764 ) , and Amesbury ( 1777 ) . |
| 19 | The Preces and sermons , together with his controversial works , were to cause Andrewes to become regarded as the leader in time and eminence of the Anglo-Catholic movement . |
| 20 | There are many reasons why fashion has begun to look to Cocteau , not simply because it is his centenary and his Hellenic graphics have begun to adorn cult objects in designer stores ( on white vases at Oggetti , on black watch faces at the Watch Gallery ) . |
| 21 | Through his determination and vitality Browning led Elizabeth Barrett from the sick-room in which she languished almost as a prisoner and ‘ carried her into the light and sunshine ’ , inspiring her finest poems and being inspired in turn to write his greatest works . |
| 22 | While working on the new opera , Don Giovanni , he also completed two string quintets , K.515 in C and K.516 in G minor — one of his greatest works in that key ; the Violin Sonata in A , K.526 ; and two small-scale ‘ divertimento-style ’ pieces , the exquisite serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and its antithesis , Ein musikalischer Späss ( A Musical Joke ) , which , in its wealth of wrong notes and inept harmonies , is obviously intended to be a satire on incompetent composers . |
| 23 | — Next , Moses goes through the law of God , the pattern of obedience which God requires from his blood-bought people ( verse 7 ) . |
| 24 | Ludford was a master of the expansive , sonorous , and virtuosic polyphony of his time , and his surviving works suggest that , unlike Taverner , he felt no inclination to experiment with the more concise and concentrated style of the later 1530s and 1540s . |
| 25 | This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards . |
| 26 | Dominic Sass had some of his unpublished works with him when the plane crashed near Katmandhu . |
| 27 | There were his fifty sheep with their lambs , all safe , in one field . |
| 28 | Dissatisfied even after weeks of painful struggle , he returned to Paris in the fall with his unfinished works . |
| 29 | It emerges that Michael Knighton , the man who would be Manchester United chairman , is seeking help to salvage his attempted £20m takeover . |
| 30 | Jay sells many of his home-bred fish to the trade . |