Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before
2 He sees his university as an embryo of the future .
3 Georg Mautner Markhof , 65 , a leading industrialist , had announced his resignation as an FPÖ vice-president on Feb. 27 .
4 On June 5 the Minister for Education , Yoon Hyon Sup , submitted his resignation as an act of atonement for the manhandling of the Prime Minister , although this was rejected on June 7 by Roh .
5 By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma .
6 At the beginning of August , Joseph was summoned to Lapwai by yet another commission desiring his settlement at an agency .
7 When he returned he fell down on the floor clutching his heart in an agonia of pain and trembling .
8 In the first years of the nineteenth century the town of Inverkeithing was controlled by an officer of the Royal Marines named David Ballingall , and Colonel Ballingall left the Lord Advocate in no doubt that he was most unhappy with his removal from an appointment as an inspecting field officer .
9 He kept his mistress in an apartment in Moscow .
10 They removed malignant tissue from his prostate during an operation last Friday .
11 Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round .
12 According to this doctrine , a party who had committed a fundamental breach of contract , could not ( at least , sometimes could not ) rely for his defence upon an exemption clause .
13 He is putting his faith in an appeal to create an endowment fund , and recently he has received a grant from the new libraries programme of the EC , to exchange and coordinate information between the Witt , the Rijksbureau in The Hague , and Trinity College , Dublin .
14 Few party members challenge his diligence as an MP , but they claim he has lost touch with the party and treats all critics as extremists .
15 His presence at an exhibition devoted to the contemporary has taken many people by surprise …
16 Agil Riyanto bin Darmowiyoto is serving his sentence in an island prison , far away from his home and family .
17 Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s .
18 If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era .
19 On this occasion as on others Edward persuaded the church to do his bidding by an action which commanded wide support , legal precedents , and political emotions .
20 He sent a little prayer ceilingwards that at least there would be no dinner jackets , then ran a comb through his hair as an afterthought .
21 The mercy of unconsciousness was denied him ; as one of the men slapped him while the other threw water from the tap over him , also tugging his hair in an effort to bring him round .
22 Licensed to preach whilst in Edinburgh , he was ordained by 1727 , and began his ministry as an assistant to his father , at the time minister of the Presbyterian meeting-house at Leather Lane , Hatton Garden , London .
23 A bondage freak himself , he would get high on dope and then let his sadistic friends use his chest as an ashtray .
24 She kneaded at his chest in an agony of rapture before clinging , nails biting into him as he drove deeper , striking into the heart of her desire with a passion that convulsed them both and hurtled them to a zenith of sensation stunning in its ferocity .
25 She put her hands against his chest in an attempt to thrust him away .
26 He narrowed his mouth into an O shape and pushed his eyebrows up into what was left of his hair .
27 He controlled his disgust with an effort .
28 ‘ Get to it , ’ snapped Morgan as he whipped off his overcoat , refused any refreshments and eased his bulk into an armchair .
29 The grounds were that the work which the appellant offered to carry out when he presented himself to Mr. Burt and Mr. Hughes as a qualified accountant ( and the remuneration that he gained the opportunity to earn as a result ) were services to be provided by him as a self-employed fee-earning accountant , and therefore were to be provided neither under a contract of employment nor by virtue of his holding of an office within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 .
30 Todd 's interest in family structures was part of his search for an explanation of ‘ the distribution of political ideologies , systems and forces on our planet ’ ( p. 1 ) , which political science had significantly failed to provide .
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