Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] his [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for his congratulations to the Government on the completion of the Chelmsford bypass . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman has been consistent in his opposition to the Community and , if he stands his ground — as I have no doubt he will — in due course those on his Front Bench will agree with him once again . |
| 3 | I WOULD just like to assure Raymond Campbell that he should not for one moment think that Glentoran fans will be upset about his move to Linfield . |
| 4 | Mr. Lloyd may be right in his answer to the estoppel by deed point . |
| 5 | Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major . |
| 6 | Anselm continued to the end to be immovable in his opposition to papal legates in England . |
| 7 | But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury . |
| 8 | To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received since the beginning of December which have been critical of his reaction to Sunday opening of stores . |
| 9 | Berkeley believes , however , that Newton 's presentation of his theories in his Principia or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ) were flawed by his tendency to abstractionism . |
| 10 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 11 | It is visible in his challenge to the academic learning of his day . |
| 12 | He is critical of some of the excesses of self-protection that have occurred in the past , but is firm in his commitment to the cab-rank rule , under which , quoting Rumpole , it is the barrister 's ‘ sacred duty . |
| 13 | THE Texas billionaire H Ross Perot is well on his way to becoming an independent candidate for president in all 50 states , thanks to Americans disillusioned with their choice of official party candidates this year . |
| 14 | The twin successes were yet more proof that the Arkansas governor is well on his way to becoming the Democrats ' White House nominee , despite widespread misgivings about his ability to defeat President Bush . |
| 15 | ‘ The man is well on his way to becoming rich , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 16 | With a £250,000 advance under his belt , Mr Seth has created a best-seller and with rights being snapped up all over the world he is well on his way to becoming a millionaire . |
| 17 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 18 | But he is uncompromising in his attitude to Irish nationalism and future political talks . |
| 19 | Brace , from Bridgend , is open about his commitment to the race , calling it ‘ glitter of gold ’ — money rather than medals — and that is why so many of the other runners want to do well . |
| 20 | Much more could , and has , been written about his qualities , but little of this is relevant to his claim to be a martyr — and it should be remembered that this claim was his own and most successful invention . |
| 21 | In part this was due to his commitment to the nationalist cause , though he played at best a minor role in the creation of Connolly 's Irish Citizen Army . |
| 22 | ( Hence Scargill was strong in his opposition to the extension of nuclear power , explicitly on safety grounds , but implicitly because of its impact on his members ' jobs . ) |
| 23 | Throughout his career , Gaunt was conspicuous for his loyalty to the king , and even when Richard II spurned that loyalty for a time , Gaunt did not associate himself with opposition to the court . |
| 24 | The main speaker , the Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler , was warm in his tribute to the WEA : . |
| 25 | Only Nikolai Vorontsov , the Minister of Nature Utilization and Environmental Protection , and not a party member , was consistent in his opposition to the coup . |
| 26 | Thus Castro was demonstrating not only that he was serious in his commitment to social reform but also , more importantly — in terms of how Soviet analysts assess the viability of a regime — that his revolutionary government had the power to implement the measures that it chose . |
| 27 | As architect to Burlington House , he was conscious of his debt to his predecessors : Sydney Smirke , EM Barry , Norman Shaw . |
| 28 | I was conscious of his importance to you . |
| 29 | An influential voice in the debate was that of Georg Kerschensteiner , Director of Education in Munich , ‘ the Mecca of all school reformers ’ , who was famous for his opposition to ‘ general ’ continued courses , preferring instead the ‘ vocational ’ but in an integrated curriculum designed to train young workers as citizens . |
| 30 | By the time the remnants of his army learned of his flight he was well on his way to Gravelines . |