Example sentences of "[that] his [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 2 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 3 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 4 | Lucker points out that his contract comes to a close in Chicago and he is not being paid for anything he is n't doing , and he is not doing anything he is n't paid for . |
| 5 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 6 | Rather like a spoilt child , he can force you into feeling that his survival depends on your constant presence and care . |
| 7 | Marshal Akhromeev admitted that his views differed from Mr Gorbachev 's . |
| 8 | But we know , and Henry James Titford , a great-great-grandson of Charles the Cheesemonger , born in 1875 , could still remember in the 1960s having heard it once said that his surname came from Frome . |
| 9 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 10 | Not that there was any more purpose in his life than there had been yesterday ; but the events of the previous twenty-four hours had shown him that Ra could and would produce the unexpected at the most surprising moment , and he could not suppress the hope that his chance meeting with Merymose might lead somewhere . |
| 11 | Case , who did his best to convince his schoolboy admirers that his initials stood for Charles Christopher Columbus . |
| 12 | His only explanation is that possibly the gentleman had travelled on the line for many years in the past and that his ghost fitted into a well-worn slot in time . |
| 13 | Squeezing away so that his biceps shifted in his sleeve , he asked ‘ so , Rog , what 's going down the chute ? ’ |
| 14 | It is , therefore , right that a solicitor who finds that his talents run to advocacy should be able to change to the Bar with a minimum of fuss . |
| 15 | ‘ The heaviest pig ever recorded was a Poland-China hog named ‘ Big Bill ’ , who was so obese that his belly dragged along the ground . |
| 16 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 17 | On the contrary they assist the plaintiff to the extent that his case accords with legislative policy and the Act at least recognises the possibility that he has a valid claim at common law — the fact that the Law Commission , whose Report on Injuries to Unborn Children ( 1974 ) ( Cmnd. 5709 ) led to the Act of 1976 , considered this a probability is perhaps not a matter which the plaintiff can properly pray in aid . |
| 18 | Cave 's departure from progressive humanism , with Its belief in individual and social transformation , is so extreme that his worldview verges on the Mediaeval : the language of curses , bad seed , the worm in the bud . |
| 19 | Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’ |
| 20 | He kept quiet , excepting that his look changed from friendliness to seriousness . |
| 21 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 22 | He knew that his life depended on two letters , one to Lanyon and one to Poole . |
| 23 | He told His disciples that He was the vine and they were the branches , so that His life flowed in their lives , His life flows in our lives . |
| 24 | For someone whose life has been lived in search of the word , who perceived that ‘ a scar is what happens when the word is made flesh , ’ who owned that his education began on hearing of the Holocaust , it is not a convincing comment . |
| 25 | We are now so close that his knife tangles in the material of my jacket and he loses it . |
| 26 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 27 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 28 | He says he can remember he was burnt in the fire and that his sister died in the fire . |
| 29 | So real was the sensation that his fingers slipped on the handle of the tea cup and when the tea spilt into the saucer he exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! |
| 30 | He says that his school caters for children with special needs , one of the areas most under threat from cuts . |