Example sentences of "[conj] his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 2 | In the course of this success he also travelled abroad on at least two occasions : in 1787 he visited Paris , where his youngest brother , the inventor and pamphleteer William Playfair [ q.v. ] , was then the agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio — and for whom he later made abortive designs for an ideal ‘ American City ’ — while in 1792–3 he was in Italy , where his itinerary included the Greek temples of Paestum . |
| 3 | Only on the south side , where his biggest battery of light cannon stood , did Nicholas build his bridge from the start almost entirely with stone . |
| 4 | But in the worst-case scenario , if the heir to the throne can not hold his marriage together , there could be no throne left for him , or his eldest son , to inherit . |
| 5 | Robert Layton will be flying at about 2,000 feet to stay below commercial flight routes , low enough to run into bad weather , or his worst nightmare , fog as he crosses the Channel . |
| 6 | In the Commons he joined the opposition ‘ mountain' led by Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , whom he revered , although his closest associates were fellow-lawyers , Thomas Creevey and Henry Brougham [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 8 | It was with a succession of such hints that Shah Jehan let it be known that his eldest son bathed in an ever-brighter glow of Imperial approval . |
| 9 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |
| 10 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 11 | Coleman claimed that his greatest contribution to the young veterinary profession was that he played a major role in securing that from 1796 appointments as veterinary surgeons ( a term used by the Standing Board of General Officers ) in the cavalry , and eventually ( 1805 ) in the artillery , were by commission rather than by warrant . |
| 12 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |
| 13 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 14 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 15 | This led to a study of condensation in the Earth 's atmosphere , and it was here that his greatest contributions were made . |
| 16 | It has also meant visiting customers worldwide , but he admits that his greatest pleasure came from meeting the company 's own employees around the globe . |
| 17 | The satisfied reader , rejoicing in Marryat 's broad humour , his acceptance of and delight in the vagaries of mankind , his shrewdness and his talent for controlling the varied pace of his stories , may well decide that his greatest virtue could be the sheer confidence of the man , his assurance that the hierarchies and authority in which he has been trained and which form the basis of his novels are essential to the well-being of his country and its navy . |
| 18 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 19 | In the office , he can be such a hard taskmaster that his closest aide , Gabriella Forte , describes his attitude before each new collection as a ‘ rape of the staff ’ . |
| 20 | He had just suggested that his closest colleague might be , in this at least , a traitor . |
| 21 | He was advised that his best chances for advancement in life lay in spending some time at the royal court and seeking some government office . |
| 22 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 23 | General Giap realised that his best course was to knock out the French before American aid increased decisively . |
| 24 | Hope welcomed the chance to break the spell he had cast , seeing now that his best course lay in apparent spontaneity , and he volunteered . |
| 25 | However , if the opponent is strong and the program is weak , the opponent may realise that his best move from HisPos is not the one leading to MyNewPos . |
| 26 | Still only 28 years old , Goram is imbued with the belief that his best days in the goalkeeping position that respects age have yet to come , and will be experienced over the next three years . |
| 27 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 28 | John Shakespeare was pleased that his oldest son was married , but I do n't think Will 's mother wanted him to marry so young . |
| 29 | 789–90 that his oldest son , Charles , should marry one of Offa 's daughters may already have been more an attempt to ‘ patch up bad relations ’ than to give effect to good ones , and , when acceptance of this extremely prestigious offer was made dependent by Offa on one of Charlemagne 's daughters marrying Ecgfrith , so affronted was Charlemagne that he gave orders that no one from Britain and the Anglian race was to land on the sea-coast of Gaul for the sake of commerce . |
| 30 | Looking at Saul Quatt , Theda could not help feeling that his fondest hope was likely to be that he might be struck by a thunderbolt ! |