Example sentences of "[was/were] his [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 2 | Less happy were his efforts during the late 1890s to revive the Speaker as an organ for radical ideas , and his editorship of the ailing Daily News from 1901 to 1902 . |
| 3 | Both were his colleagues amongst the seven original confederate magnates . |
| 4 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 5 | So was his emphasis on the preventive aspects of psychiatry . |
| 6 | The only good sign in his game was his play of the par-threes , two under par for the two rounds . |
| 7 | When he heard about Bonanza parking the Fraser girl on ice out in the country he must have figured it was his chance for the big killing . |
| 8 | Rogers 's principal political achievement was his work for the National Committee of Organized Labour , a body established in 1899 to work for universal old-age pensions . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly one of the most important milestones in the Nicol career was his selection for the Scottish tour to North American in May 1991 , during which he played in three of the six games and scored a try in each one : ‘ That really was the start of things . |
| 10 | Another instance of Charles 's outspokenness was his attack on the proposed Paternoster Square development . |
| 11 | This was his proposal of the Ordovician system as a separate thickness of rocks having its distinctive faunas , intervening between the Cambrian system of Adam Sedgwick [ q.v. ] |
| 12 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 13 | In his desk drawer was his watch with the broken strap . |
| 14 | The obverse of Wilson 's attack on the ‘ grouse-moor ’ Tories was his promotion of the Labour Party as ‘ modern ’ and ‘ scientific ’ , as poised to release the ‘ technological revolution ’ . |
| 15 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 16 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
| 17 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 18 | It is therefore curious that although the author 's original impetus for writing was his involvement in the controversial treatment of recurrent spontaneous miscarriage by immunotherapy , he has largely ignored the topical clinical arena . |
| 19 | The only thing that was any dearer to him now than it had been when he started was his picture of the murdered woman . |
| 20 | The right which he had most clearly in mind was his claim to the French crown , which he asserted formally in his renunciation of homage three months later . |
| 21 | What was his marks for the last test . |
| 22 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 23 | I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation . |
| 24 | Perhaps Reaumur 's most significant contribution to the biological sciences , however , was his observation of the regenerative power of certain crustaceans which had lost a limb . |
| 25 | It sounds as though the high point of that person 's career was his encounter with the hon. Gentleman . |
| 26 | As was his stumbling across the secret technique of effecting invisibility . |
| 27 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 28 | One of Messel 's important contributions was his study of the catalytic reaction and the poisoning of the platinum catalyst . |
| 29 | 3 What was his score in the 4th match ? |
| 30 | That was his intention from the first . |