Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His employers argued that the onset of this rare and serious illness was not reasonably foreseeable and , therefore , they should not be liable for the consequences . |
| 2 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 3 | His heart contracted and the thought struck him that this domestic scene encompassed all he could ever want of life . |
| 4 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 5 | Adam Ruck knows when his heart quickens that the standard is high |
| 6 | Space prevents a full summary of Illich 's closely reasoned attack on the medical profession but his views suggest that the functionalist argument that the higher professions confer positive benefits on society is at least questionable . |
| 7 | Roman put the milk jug in front of her , his fingers slipped and the milk spilt all over the table . |
| 8 | But his enemies believed that the sickness was just another of his delaying tactics and so they renewed the war as soon as the truce expired . |
| 9 | I can assure you that he is highly delighted with his decision to purchase because the cost savings over the life-time of the machine more than offset the initial cost difference . ’ |
| 10 | His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts . |
| 11 | It simply stated that Mr. Cox was a long term member of the Communist Party and prominent in C.N.D. and that it was desired to investigate his activities to ascertain whether the Communist Party was manipulating C.N.D. in a clandestine way . |
| 12 | And his defence maintained that the FA had a grudge against him because he had openly criticized the transfer system . |
| 13 | He was the first artist to insist upon royalty payments , and his contract stipulated that the records should be retailed at £1.00 each . |
| 14 | She felt his breathing quicken and the beat of his heart . |
| 15 | Many of his opponents considered that the whole of the CIA was more crucial than that of the Almighty . |
| 16 | The attack came after steel erector Mr Fox and his mum complained when the pitbull ran amok in the pub , Bristol Crown Court heard . |
| 17 | ‘ A fine night for a fight ! ’ the Hearthware leader said , his teeth flashing and the blood shining on his sword . |
| 18 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 19 | When subjects are woken from REM sleep and questioned about their dreams Edwin Kahn and his associates found that the incidence of reporting colours increased to 70 per cent . |
| 20 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 21 | It is his responsibility to decide whether the glider should be manned at the nose or tail , and whether someone is needed in the cockpit . |
| 22 | She could see his mouth moving but the words were strange , alien . |
| 23 | Some were later exploited by Copernicus in his attempt to establish that the earth both turns on its axis and revolves around the sun . |
| 24 | In his attempt to determine whether the methods and concepts of ecology and physical geography can contribute effectively to analysis of urban issues in the context of the city as an integrated open system of living things interacting with their physical environment , Douglas ( 1981 ) argues that an attempt must be made to link the city as a habitat or an ecosystem with the city as a social system and he develops an ecosystem approach to the study of cities . |
| 25 | Baltz uses the camera like a microscope and his pictures suggest that the disturbances observed here in miniature are legible as part of a larger allegory . |
| 26 | If no bill or statement has been signed by the master or his agent indicating that the freight had been paid , the carrier may exercise a lien on the cargo for the unpaid freight . |
| 27 | Mike Stein 's chapter reviews what his research revealed and the policies and practice currently focused on this vulnerable group of young people . |
| 28 | His research showed that the electoral roll membership per percentage of population was 5.6 per cent for upper middle-class areas , falling to 0.9 per cent in working-class parishes consisting mainly of council housing . |
| 29 | He was at his strongest when he or one of his supporters discovered that the Movement 's workers had misinterpreted the wishes of refugee children or their parents , or had simply allowed inadequate foster homes to escape thorough inspection . |
| 30 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |