Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 2 | She wanted to know what he did with his evenings and was told of occasional visits to the West End now everything in the world of entertainment had opened up once more , but the mess or the local pubs were the usual haunts of his brother officers and himself . |
| 3 | Bartholomew and Greenwich Fairs were the chief scenes of his activities . |
| 4 | His student family , the men and women who were the living embodiment of his dream . |
| 5 | He explained that elections and the resumption of parliamentary life , suspended after Israel 's seizure of the West Bank from Jordanian rule in 1967 , were the logical outcome of his decision on 31 July 1988 to sever legal and administrative ties with the West Bank . |
| 6 | Over the past year , many a fund manager has had his confidence shattered as supposedly reliable shares that were the solid core of his portfolio — IBM , Merck , Kellogg , Philip Morris — crashed out of a clear blue sky . |
| 7 | But , with the run of his luck , how things stood , in what , so they said , were the best years of his life , he would be in chains for the rest of them . |
| 8 | Yet , such were the curious contradictions of his character that Baldwin always remained closely in touch with the work of the Foreign Office . |
| 9 | The trio of mid-Seventies snarl-toothed rock albums , Fear , Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy were the best-received work of his career . |
| 10 | Were the reported remarks of his parliamentary private secretary in accordance with an official departmental brief ? |
| 11 | Marshal Sergei Akhromeev , now Mr Gorbachev 's military adviser and , at the time , the man who organised the evacuation of Pripyat and entombed the stricken reactor , says that the two most memorable days in his life were the German invasion of his country in 1941 and the day of the Chernobyl explosion . |
| 12 | Even when he was not formally responsible for them , the Company 's affairs were the main interest of his life . |
| 13 | Indeed it was the Flemings who were the main target of his attack , far more than England 's older French enemies ( 43 , pp.3–6 , 15 , 53–5 ) . |
| 14 | It would be surprising if Tolkien had not looked at the calm face of Tollund Man , or the hideously frightened one of ‘ Queen Gunhild ’ ( all too obviously still struggling as she was pinned down alive ) , and reflected that these were the true lineaments of his pagan ancestors . |
| 15 | as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces . |
| 16 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 17 | He commented patronisingly that almost the only sounds he heard from Baldwin during Cabinets were the rhythmic sucking of his pipe . |
| 18 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 19 | There was the towering image of his father — to whom almost no son could be equal . |
| 20 | The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan . |
| 21 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 22 | Despite that elbow , Horace was the finest amateur of his day . |
| 23 | This year was the fiftieth anniversary of his joining the British Trotskyist movement . |
| 24 | His sense of isolation was the chief suffering of his life in Cambridge . |
| 25 | This ‘ difficulty ’ was the moral center of his art , the very fulcrum of his style . |
| 26 | Lucille , politely applauding with the rest of the room , wondered whether this man truly was the greatest soldier of his time . |
| 27 | He spoke passionately , even wildly — a tone that was the complete opposite of his usual , cool manner . |
| 28 | It was the second attack on his Elmfield Street house . |
| 29 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 30 | Mozart was the unwitting victim of his little scheme . |