Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 2 | Another major contribution by Newton was of course his law of gravitation . |
| 3 | The religion which Proust eventually elaborated , as we shall see , was I think a religion of art , and the masterpiece which he wrote was of course his novel in fifteen volumes . |
| 4 | He had of course his grasp of military and diplomatic practice to help him ; and he was firmly convinced that the Roman constitution was open to analysis in Greek terms . |
| 5 | Of course his answer for A agreed with that determined experimentally . |
| 6 | ‘ Until commission of the act of bankruptcy he was , of course , the beneficial owner of whatever assets he possessed , but by the act of bankruptcy his title to be regarded as such beneficial owner is no longer absolute , but is contingent on no bankruptcy petition being presented within three months of the date of the act of bankruptcy which leads to a receiving order being made . |
| 7 | Thus where the owner or operator of a British vessel is able to claim the benefit of limitation his liability for any incident will not exceed approximately $380,000 . |
| 8 | Robb 's went from strength to strength and in 1933 when Ramage & Ferguson went out of business his takeover of the Victoria Shipyards was complete . |
| 9 | This emphasis on income rather than influence was appropriate in the endowment of a royal duke who was still a child , but once Gloucester came of age his lack of a suitable power base was less acceptable . |
| 10 | This emphasis on income rather than influence was appropriate in the endowment of a royal duke who was still a child , but once Gloucester came of age his lack of a suitable power base was less acceptable . |
| 11 | As president of the Court of Appeal his view on the proper relationship between the Executive government and the individual , including powerful private organizations , is crucial . |
| 12 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 13 | When I read Ash , I think of the younger Coleridge , reciting with gusto his epigram upon Donne : |
| 14 | If this misgiving about Lewis is at all fair ( the sense of a carapace hardening upon him ) , then one must also view with ambivalence his excursion into the realm of religious apologetics . |
| 15 | Anselm carried into politics his search for an eternal order of truth and justice , unshakeable and subject to no alteration . |
| 16 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 17 | It reflected in part his reaction to the encyclical Quanta cura of 1864 . |
| 18 | In addition his role as a member of the Commission gave him the personal opportunity to support the chaplains in their Ministry in the University parish . |
| 19 | Though Cutler seems to regard the three modes as , in the end , ideal types , in practice his discussion of the relationships between reproductive media and musical practices — which is genuinely important — is presented as an abstract schema . |
| 20 | He wrote this long four-movement piece in 1931 for the clarinettist of the day , Frederick Thurston , but might have had in mind his predecessor by 40 years , Richard Muhlfeld , so mellifluously Brahmsian is the style of writing . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind his liking for nocturnal walks , one can imagine his excitement . |
| 22 | In effect his agenda of constructing a theory of the state appropriate to the modern world is transformed by the public lawyers into an agenda for building a modern theory of public law . |
| 23 | Maude came in and Cranston looked at her , hang-dog , for even in bed his tourney of love was failing . |
| 24 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 25 | Yet a brief perusal of the central details of Wand 's career to date confirms that in fact his commitment to new music was paramount from the time he began to rebuild musical life in Cologne in the early post-war years . |
| 26 | All this is supposed to contrast with his own offering , which appears to be introduced with the words " " I speke in prose " " ( II : 96 ) although in fact his tale of a noble woman and wife , Custance ( Constance ) , is told in rhyme-royal stanzas . |
| 27 | To most people , Turing is best known for his work on the theory of computing machines , but in time his work on the theory of morphogenesis may be seen as equally important . |
| 28 | His father , however , did have the wit to apprentice his son to Clementi , the composer and piano maker , and so Field , in his early teens , was sent to London to study . |
| 29 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 30 | He 's got ta be back on board his ship on Monday . |