Example sentences of "of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Davis is an international photographer/journalist , who has over 20 years experience in yacht racing , most recently with the entry of his one ton Top Gun in the 1987 US Admiral 's Cup trials |
| 2 | Far more important as a source — a direct hit on all four counts — is Sir John Suckling 's play The Goblins , printed in successive editions of his collected works . |
| 3 | I 'd love to see that example of his Collected Works ! ’ |
| 4 | After the war a number of volumes of his collected poems were published , the most notable being Rough Rhymes of a Padre ( 1918 ) , Peace Rhymes of a Padre ( 1920 ) , Songs of Faith and Doubt ( 1922 ) , and The Unutterable Beauty ( 1927 ) . |
| 5 | Konstantin Kavelin took the train from St Petersburg and persuaded Chicherin to write the first of his anti-governmental memoranda . |
| 6 | Being a combination of social worker , medical auxiliary , and teacher to these miners and their families meant that he was able to break out of the prison of his hateful loneliness . |
| 7 | Awaiting the dying of his void shield . |
| 8 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |
| 9 | For the final ballot each voter must indicate two preferences amongst the three candidates by placing the figure I opposite the name of his preferred candidate and the figure 2 opposite the name of his second choice . |
| 10 | But they must progress without brilliant fly-half Naas Botha , who announced his retirement at the end of his 28th Test . |
| 11 | Pollack , known as Jaws because of his ball-hunting capability , certainly took a bite out of Blackburn 's title hopes . |
| 12 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 13 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 14 | ROBBIE REGAN 'S first defence of his European flyweight title , against Londoner Danny Porter , was yesterday postponed because of an ankle injury the champion suffered in training . |
| 15 | WELSHMAN Robbie Regan will make the first defence of his European flyweight crown against Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the National Ice Rink , Cardiff on January 19 . |
| 16 | This idea of a political confederation of the Common Market states — the other dimension of his European initiative — had been in the air since the first meeting with Adenauer in 1958 . |
| 17 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 18 | While this may seem a consolidation of his European realm and role , Charles could not have foreseen that he was to strengthen the future power of the papacy far more than that of his own lineage . |
| 19 | Dowland was a European figure , lutenist to James I 's brother-in-law , Christian IV of Denmark , from 1598 to 1606 ; he boasted of his European travels , his friendship with Marenzio and Giovanni Croce , and the fact that his compositions had been published in Paris , the Netherlands , and several German cities , for instance in Jean Baptiste Besard 's famous collection of lute solos and songs , Thesaurus harmonicus ( Cologne , 1603 ) . |
| 20 | Tuathal had crossed the Earn and was on this side , strung out with what remained of his hundred horsemen . |
| 21 | Although Lawrence 's original ( 1949 ) experiment has not been replicated exactly , the work of his successors ( conducted both with animal subjects and with humans ) has confirmed the validity of his central contention — discrimination training , in which each of a pair of cues becomes associated with a different outcome , enhances performance on a further discriminative task involving the same cues . |
| 22 | The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief . |
| 23 | The famous 1974 address still remains , in some respects , a benchmark of his thinking and of his central concern . |
| 24 | Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man . |
| 25 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 26 | One of his central points is that it is the already employed and relatively well-off households who are in fact engaging in such self-servicing . |
| 27 | However , Fforde 's acceptance of Dicey 's basic agenda reveals the weakness of his central argument , a weakness which is confirmed by his comment that the LPDL , an organization with which Dicey had close links , ‘ espoused the pure milk of Conservative orthodoxy ’ . |
| 28 | Here Venutius , leader of the Brigantes , had crouched in the night by his camp fire dwelling on the treachery of his faithless queen Cartimandua , who had sold her people to the Romans . |
| 29 | The lazy and the inattentive were the object of his acerbic wit ; the careless ( especially with language ) the subject of his scorn . |
| 30 | The congregation prayed that they might follow ‘ the example of his courage and constancy , his meekness and patience and great charity , and may this kingdom be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood ’ . |