Example sentences of "[adj] in his [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the current employment situation in the UK , where some 280 BA-sponsored graduates from Oxford and Prestwick have yet to be employed as aircrew by the airline , Meehan is unequivocal in his optimism for the future . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the experience was tremendous and Geoff Wappett , the Bradford coach , was high in his praise for the organisation of the tournament and the benefit that his young wide received from it . |
| 3 | Field Marshal Lord Wavell was strong in his support for the S.A.S. He had commented that one should never allow oneself to be ‘ trammelled by the bonds of orthodoxy ’ . |
| 4 | But he is not alone in his distaste for the BTU tax . |
| 5 | His brother-in-law wrote in a memoir that on his return to Turvey in 1829 , Higgins was ‘ unremitting in his solicitude for the poor of the parish ’ . |