Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devos might have added that Charpentier frequently reinforces his wishes at the ends of sections with verbal indications such as ‘ Passez sans interruption a la suite ’ ( ‘ Continue without interruption to the next movement ’ ) , or ‘ Suivez au Choeur sans interruption ’ ( ‘ Continue with the chorus without interruption ’ ) . |
| 2 | It appeared that the judge had tendered his resignation on the grounds of ill health in a letter sent to the Lord Chancellor the day before his controversial comments . |
| 3 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 4 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 5 | His views on the rights of hereditary monarchy and episcopacy were those of Charles Leslie [ q.v. ] , whom he admired , but Earbery had none of his wit or power of reasoning : his numerous works are largely made up of quantities of historical narrative , related with a strong ideological bias , often laced with personal abuse . |
| 6 | ‘ At the very least there is perceived to be an apparent disinclination to contact and involve Church spokesmen in matters like education or to approach the Moderator for his views on the circumstances of the Presbyterian community which is the second largest denomination in Northern Ireland , ’ one leading Churchman said . |
| 7 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 8 | He crossed to the open storage cabinets and ran his fingers along the rows of simularity crystals ; her files , her notes , her diary . |
| 9 | In the mid-1970's Zelaya was imprisoned for 2½ years for his part in the murders of two priests and five peasants who were agitating for land reform . |
| 10 | To Isobel 's surprise he went beetroot red , flushing from the collar of his shirt to the roots of his now receding hair . |
| 11 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support for the efforts of those involved and his endorsement of them . |
| 12 | Christina saw her husband gradually relax and begin to enjoy himself , tapping his foot to the strains of a calypso floating towards them from the dance-floor on the piazza outside . |
| 13 | Whereas Augustus had had the poet Virgil to sing his praises , Constantine had the ecclesiastical politician and historian Eusebius as the man who sat immediately to the right of his throne during the sessions of the Council of Nicaea in 325 and exercised a decisive influence on the creed and discipline of the Universal , or Catholic , Church . |
| 14 | His description of the galleries of Dent on either side of the narrow street is all that is left to remind us of their undoubted presence , ‘ I regret the loss of the grotesque and rude but picturesque old galleries , which once gave character to the streets ; and in some parts of them almost shut out the sight of the sky from those who travelled along the pavement . |
| 15 | His elitism is well brought out in his description of the elections of 1705 , where he claimed that " the Principal Gentry , both for Estates and Reputation " , supported the Tory candidates , and " the Refuse and Scum , the Beasts of the People " , supported the Whigs ; he went on to recommend changing the franchise qualification from forty shillings worth of freehold land to " 10 Pounds at least " . |
| 16 | The starting point is Sir Isaac Newton 's discovery of the laws of gravity and his formulation of the laws of motion to explain the movement of bodies in response to forces . |
| 17 | Today saw the culmination of months of hard training as Hugh slipped his canoe into the waters of Lough Ryan for the solo trip back to his home town . |
| 18 | By the palaeolithic period , man was a highly developed creature capable of shaping tools and even depicting his activities on the walls of caves . |
| 19 | He had been given a list of Extension Centres marked ‘ active ’ or ‘ dormant ’ to ensure there would be no misinterpretation over his activities within the constraints of the document . |
| 20 | She defines the practice as ’ … the use by an insider of price sensitive information ( known to him but not generally and which he has acquired by virtue of his position ) to trade to his advantage in the shares of a company . ’ |
| 21 | Undoubtedly these evasions were possible because among the clergy as a whole were many who served the king and depended upon his protection against the rigours of canon law , and because the pope , in his defence of the monarchy , undermined the independence and confidence of the prelates . |
| 22 | The inscription ‘ Father of the Pianoforte ’ , placed over his grave in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey in 1877 , is both too emphatic and too exclusive . |
| 23 | God knew , however , that without divine intervention and the presence of his glory in the depths of human life such a reversal was impossible . |
| 24 | The former phrase was coined by Thoreau to indicate his resistance to the laws of the state , and it was the title of an essay by him which Gandhi read after he had started to resist the South African authorities . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal held that this decision should be quashed because the Minister had not adequately explained his reasons , particularly in failing to give his assessment of the merits of the existing building . |
| 26 | Sir Henry Cole thought that the answer to the problem was simple : Scott should remodel his proposals on the lines of Inigo Jones ' scheme for Whitehall Palace , and eventually Street asked in The Builder what was to be gained from changing the architect ; a Gothic building was appropriate , and Scott should be allowed to get on with the work . |
| 27 | Third , his sympathy for the traditions of the old Canterbury monks . |
| 28 | In his study of the problems of implementing the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales , Richards describes the various means that ‘ exist to facilitate county/district co-operation , some of which depend on the 1972 Act and some of which do not ’ ( Richards 1975b:76 ) . |
| 29 | Blauner ( 1964 ) , in his study of the experiences of different types of factory worker , brought together empirical evidence from several sources . |
| 30 | This has been thoroughly assessed by Bruce Cumings in the first volume of his study of the antecedents of the Korean War . |