Example sentences of "his personal [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abdul Shamji , chairman of the Gomba Group of Companies , yesterday lost his appeal against a 15-month jail sentence for giving perjured evidence about his personal fortune . |
| 2 | LINFORD CHRISTIE has received sacks of begging letters following reports about his personal fortune . |
| 3 | He said simply that he had known where to go for it , and moved on to explain that when Hal MacQuillan made a bid for the paper it was supposed to be his personal fortune that was financing it . |
| 4 | An MP who 's at risk of losing much of his personal fortune in the Lloyds insurance scandal is calling for legal action to stop what he calls the swindling , fraud and insider dealing in the insurance market . |
| 5 | Now though , his personal fortune is threatened . |
| 6 | He and Hunt became Britain 's most famous racing partnership as the 42-year-old Peer spent a large chunk of his personal fortune setting up and maintaining the Hesketh team , whose Grand Prix cars sported a red , white and blue livery . |
| 7 | Richmond scored further tries through Jonathan Willis , Hutton ( 2 ) and Cooper , and Livesey added three more conversions to bring his personal haul to 18 points . |
| 8 | It is assumed that , whereas the businessman maximizes profit to maximize his personal utility , the bureaucrat maximizes his budget and thereby his salary , perquisites of office , public reputation , power , patronage , ease of managing the bureau and ease of making changes to public policy which he believes to be in the public interest . |
| 9 | Two of these Mrs Rose could trace but the third had been with Crabb when they said goodbye and was not amongst his personal possessions returned to Crabb 's mother by ‘ Smith ’ . |
| 10 | Holly was bubbling with the story of him arriving at work to find someone else installed in his office and his personal possessions in a heap in the corridor . |
| 11 | Despite his personal success the team has not score a point in the last five matches , and are next to bottom . |
| 12 | His main strategy was to emphasize his personal success in overcoming the disadvantages of race and poverty during his childhood in rural Georgia and rising to the top , first as a corporation lawyer , then as a public official and finally as a judge . |
| 13 | His first-hand experience of the work of Cizek in Vienna , together with his personal studies at the Euston Road School , had strengthened his knowledge of the spontaneity of the work of children . |
| 14 | Not only did the schoolmaster make him move , but he instructed him to transfer all his personal effects from the luggage rack above the seat to the rack on the other side , which takes a particular kind of pettiness , do n't you think . |
| 15 | Nearby places to visit include the Lingholm Gardens , Carlisle Castle built in 1092 to watch over England 's border with Scotland , and Wordsworth 's house in Cockermouth which was his birthplace and houses some of his personal effects . |
| 16 | But that I 'm so glad you 've come here to see to his personal effects this way ? |
| 17 | His personal effects were valued at less than £1,000 , but the family must have lived in some style , since one of the witnesses to the will was the resident coachman . |
| 18 | And so , amongst his personal effects are a number of papers . |
| 19 | He liked his personal style of government , and his establishment of a Cabinet Secretariat and his own personal advisers or brains trust in the ‘ garden suburbs ’ . |
| 20 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 21 | He completed his personal Test double , by scoring six runs . |
| 22 | Mina , who regarded Navarre as his personal fief , saw his guerrillas dissolved — as they must be for they could not be paid — and his efforts on their behalf cold-shouldered by the new courtiers . |
| 23 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |
| 24 | He remembered what he had put on his personal qualities ' file : ‘ Judgement not always reliable in the political and commercial area ’ . |
| 25 | Afterwards he reflected on the preacher 's dilemma : ‘ If he is a strong man , the possessor of popular gifts , he will be treated with plenty of consideration ; but the consideration is not due to his office so much as to his personal qualities . ’ |
| 26 | One can only suppose that he preferred an effective ruler , however unpleasant , to an ineffective one , however much recommended by his personal qualities . |
| 27 | But he would do so by virtue of his position in the kinship network not because of his personal qualities . |
| 28 | In a national broadcast on Jan. 24 Menem said that Argentina was in a state of " moral emergency " due to corruption ; he announced that government and military officials and employees of state enterprises would be required to submit a list of their assets , and he promised a purge of his personal advisers . |
| 29 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 30 | The passionate sentimentality of his rhetoric reached out to ordinary unpolitical people , while his personal charisma provided a necessary substitute for political or ideological coherence in the new movement . |