Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They added 179 in just 50 overs , with Smith scoring 70 of his runs in boundaries , an indication of his ruthlessness in punishing the bad ball . |
| 2 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 3 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |
| 4 | Unlike , say , Lyndon Johnson , there was no chance of Reagan overwhelming or brow-beating legislators into submission ; nor was he likely to intimidate them as Jimmy Carter often did by dazzling but discomfiting displays of his mastery of the detail of policy-making . |
| 5 | A tranquil demeanour then is also required of the powerful ruwang by the members of his community as evidence of his mastery over his powers and his emotions . |
| 6 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 7 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 8 | To learn about the story of his exploits in enemy territory it is necessary to dig out the cuttings of newspapers printed forty-five years ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is Orwell 's famous account of his experience as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 12 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 13 | To be sure , human behaviour can be , and is , studied from the outside , but such a science — behavioural science — tells us nothing about the psyche and the person 's understanding of his experience of his existence . |
| 14 | But he can see , from the vantage-point of his experience of life , how shallow and patronizing this conception of happiness is . |
| 15 | Then Les began to tell of his experience of life . |
| 16 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 17 | Moreover , as Scheingold ( Scheingold , 1974 , p. 95 ) has somewhat bitterly commented , in the light of his experience with American civil rights test cases , even judicially acknowledged rights should still be treated as contingent resources and not accomplished social facts . |
| 18 | That his views on AIDS carried great weight was a result not only of his experience with research on vaccines , but also because he was so articulate and incisive . |
| 19 | In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 . |
| 20 | Although too weak to leave his bed , he was able to give an account of his experience to his visitors . |
| 21 | A correspondent , Mr A. W. Kewish of Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria , tells of his experience in Blea Moor Tunnel . |
| 22 | PRESSING ON : Just in case they 've left anything out , Johnny insists on giving Fergie the full weight of his experience in these matters |
| 23 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 24 | At the same time , by virtue of his experience in the Secondary School sector of education he had a valuable contribution to make in how we can effectively communicate with young secondary school adults as potential members of the Catholic University parish . |
| 25 | IN HIS speech to the House of Commons debate on the Draft Appropriation No 2 ( Northern Ireland ) Order , in July , DUP leader , the Rev. Ian Paisley welcomed the appointment of Sir John Wheeler as NIO Security Minister adding that he hoped he would bring the benefit of his experience in prisons to bear . |
| 26 | Hence the bias of his history of art , that interwoven analysis of artistic production and the world of technique . |
| 27 | Mr Reynolds is admitted directly from the surgical Outpatient Clinic where his General Practitioner referred him urgently because of his history of an alteration in bowel habit , rectal bleeding and constipation . |
| 28 | A lifetime of historical study culminated in Eyre 's last years in the publication of several books , including a revised third edition ( 1887 ) of his History of St. Cuthbert ( first published in 1849 ) . |
| 29 | Herodotus made Atossa advise Xerxes to conquer Greece ; Theopompus put the personality of Philip at the beginning of his history of the Macedonian conquest of Greece . |
| 30 | A long fragment of his history of the years 190–188 B.C. is preserved by Phlegon of Tralles , the freedman and secretary of Hadrian ( 257 , fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |