Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ideas on culture and society are , as one would expect , a product both of Malinowski 's own flamboyant personality and of his experience as a field-worker . |
| 2 | With the benefit of his experience as a working musician , Cutler describes the part played by new technology in the growth of cheap , do-it-yourself recording , the rise of independent production and distribution networks , and the increased ease of access to production facilities . |
| 3 | This is Orwell 's famous account of his experience as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 4 | Penn described the anti-hero of his Western as ‘ a man who gets rid of his history like a snake sheds his skin … |
| 5 | He has halted most of his opponents in a 36-fight ring career , and his two defeats were to Michael Watson and Eubank . |
| 6 | John Wesley could admire the correctness with which " an unlearned tinner speaks extemporare " , but more typical of his class was the reaction of one of his opponents in a letter to the Bishop of Exeter . |
| 7 | Wo n't let me out of his sight for a minute , he said . |
| 8 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 9 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 10 | Nick looked across the room to where a fat man in jeans stood by the bar and ticked the side of his forehead like a taxi driver acknowledging a tip . |
| 11 | A red weal lay across the lines of his forehead like a strawberry mark . |
| 12 | Some predict that eventually everyone will carry all the sequences of his genes on a compact disk . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the writing by a testator of his name on a testamentary document , as for instance by writing ‘ My will by John Smith ’ or perhaps by typing ‘ The will of John Smith , ’ or in some other passage that left it uncertain whether in doing so he was intending to authenticate the document , would not , by itself , satisfy either paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( b ) of section 9 . |
| 14 | For the lack of overt reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ in his major speeches , and the omission of his name as a signatory to the boycott ‘ appeal ’ can only be seen as a deliberate policy to detach the Führer himself in his public image from the violent anti Jewish rhetoric and actions of which he privately approved . |
| 15 | ‘ A person who is or has been … a member of the security and intelligence services … is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information … which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services … |
| 16 | Thus , a director must account to the company for any commissions he receives on company contracts , because he receives them only by virtue of his position as a director , and he could have been induced to encourage the company to enter into a contract which is not in its best interest . |
| 17 | Probably one immediate result of this change was Vincent 's growing rebellion against the restrictions that went with the use of his home as a base . |
| 18 | Mr Reenan , 70 , was only glimpsed briefly yesterday , sneaking a glance out of the window of his home in a private road . |
| 19 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 20 | The observer was asked to move through the wood of his choice at a fixed speed , dividing the time spent into units of 10 minutes each and recording for each 10-minute period all the birds seen or heard , normally within a band of 50 yards ( 46 metres ) from the observer . |
| 21 | On the contrary , Aubrey 's instant approval of his choice of a wife had added to his own conviction that he had finally made the right decision for his future happiness . |
| 22 | Its principles were praised by reforming monarchs such as Frederick II of Prussia , Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine the Great of Russia ; the French Code introduced by the revolutionary regime in 1791 was an attempt at direct implementation of his plan for a rigid tariff of punishments ; Beccaria also greatly influenced such English jurists as Romilly and Blackstone . |
| 23 | But can you predict your child 's future personality on the basis of his behaviour as a toddler ? |
| 24 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 25 | The driving force behind the transactional approach with which we undertake a study of the fans is , of course , Howard Becker , and although this is not the place to enter into a long discussion of his contribution to a more radical sociology , some brief attention must be given to his work ( Becker , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | In it he described a succession of his dreams over a period of thirty years , which seemed to show glimpses of the future , and provided a theory of time to account for them . |
| 27 | The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 . |
| 28 | Mark Henderson , 21 , of Southfield Road , Middlesbrough , was put on a two year probation order yesterday after Teesside Crown Court heard details of his part in a high speed chase . |
| 29 | The 5th-Century mystic spent the last 45 years of his life atop a stone pillar . |
| 30 | The author spent much of his life as a bachelor Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford ; his cloistered life was devoted to writing , notably on classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance . |