Example sentences of "that his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found an excessive weighting towards popularized science in the citations he studied , but it could be argued that his sample was too small , or was otherwise unrepresentative . |
| 2 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 3 | The surveyor should ensure that his inspection is carried out so as to avoid damage to contents and to the property . |
| 4 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 5 | Richard told me that his interpretation of Prince Hal caused some trouble with the director who was himself playing Falstaff and consequently wanted no serious note to disturb the comedy of the tavern scenes . |
| 6 | , I do not think that his interpretation was in every respect correct . |
| 7 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 8 | Second , Cecil had recently helped Northumberland in a profitable suit and feared that his assistance would now be misinterpreted . |
| 9 | His knowledge of coalmining and the geology of the north of England coalfields was now such that his assistance was frequently called upon by mine owners and speculators , and he acquired interests in a number of mines in the area . |
| 10 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 11 | He has to learn that God is a living God now , as well as in the middle ages ; to learn to trust not in antique precedents , but in eternal laws : to learn that his tenants , just because they are children of God , are not to be kept children , but developed and educated into sons . |
| 12 | At the least , the order suggests that the archbishop was so out of favour in high quarters that his tenants had risked withholding their money . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , despite saying so , she is convinced that his diary is full of entries about her . |
| 14 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 15 | He is baffled that his meetings with foreign dignitaries are often relegated to the news-in-brief columns . |
| 16 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 17 | He added that his forecast for the economy — if he had one — was pessimistic . |
| 18 | ( The figures show that his forecast was correct . |
| 19 | * forecasts and targets — individual territory forecasts may be viewed with scepticism when an individual salesperson suspects that his forecast will become his sales target . |
| 20 | One of the students has been in prison and the council has been told it is unlikely that his overpayment can be recovered . |
| 21 | But his full-bottomed wig he has kept in the hope that his barrister son , also Bernard , will one day need it as a QC . |
| 22 | SHAMEN star Colin Angus has furiously slammed claims that his No. 1 hit is an advert for the dangerous drug ecstasy . |
| 23 | However he noted that his category of wide-mouthed cook-pots are often smoke-blackened on the outer surface . |
| 24 | A J Lubin does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him . |
| 25 | But at the end of a very long , very hard life , he was still able to smile enthusiastically into his son 's lens and show that his experiences had n't got the better of him . |
| 26 | Alistair McAlpine became Lord McAlpine of West Green in the year that his firm donated £43,000 . |
| 27 | He wrote to me to say that his occupation would become ‘ unreserved ’ on August 1 , 1941 , but that his firm would only release staff to join the armed forces . |
| 28 | But Bull acknowledges that his firm , through its work in testing electrical equipment for susceptibility to RFI , has learnt about numerous incidents . |
| 29 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 30 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |