Example sentences of "[be] [that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 2 | Among the most important evidence to emerge from analysis of Mansell 's start are that his Ferrari was not lined up straight and telemetry on the Ferrari indicated that he had fiercely defended his position , turning right twice to close out Prost . |
| 3 | The Saturday Review remarked that he was ‘ in no way prominent for artistic taste or knowledge ’ , and his only possible interest could have been that his London home , Montagu House , was on the opposite side of Whitehall from the site . |
| 4 | Or , simply , it may have been that his feet were bad . |
| 5 | The anecdotal view has been that his brevity of tenure reflected animosity from an Anglican establishment , disturbed by Lyell 's rejection of a recent , universal flood . |
| 6 | Well Canadian you know might have been that his father was in the Canadian army in the war . |
| 7 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 8 | It may be that his gifts lay in the thrill and risk of live performance , losing their savour in aspic ; or , more likely , that his genius was always over-rated . |
| 9 | It may be that his gifts lay in the thrill and risk of live performance , losing their savour in aspic ; or , more likely , that his genius was always overrated . |
| 10 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 11 | The testator 's intention once again appears to be that his daughter 's whole estate should devolve according to the rules of intestacy , and so end in her brother 's eager hands . |
| 12 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 13 | Could it possibly be that his knowledge is power over you ? |
| 14 | Furthermore , it could just be that his union might contain diverse political factions within it which , thanks to years of forced and unenforced apartheid , have come to permeate every fabric of society and may well have forced SARU into an on-going powerplay with SARB . |
| 15 | His most fitting memorial would be that his friends should press for an answer to the awkward questions on nuclear policy the British government has not yet answered . |
| 16 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 17 | But alternatively it may be that his understanding is less certain than his comment suggests , and that further discussion would reveal doubts ! |
| 18 | Nevertheless , if the disparity between the two periods is considerable , and he gives no reasons , it may well be that his decision will be open to challenge by way of judicial review as being irrational . |
| 19 | But it may well be that his prolonged failure ( now happily corrected ) to achieve political success was attributable to long memories . |
| 20 | Could it be that his father had been wrong ? |
| 21 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 22 | In fact , it could well be that his knowledge of her return to Eastlake had brought about her present anxieties . |
| 23 | The important points for the surname study were that his name had been spelt both as Fortereshey and Forsteresheigh , as well as Forsey and , perhaps most significantly of all , the name of the estate itself was given as Forstereshey . |
| 24 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 25 | Further down the street , the local baker would be telling his hapless visitors much the same story as their butcher : the cost of wheat was out of all control , and he was as sorry as they were that his prices were up , while their wages had held steady . |
| 26 | The medical team on the stop sent Courtney to hospital but first reports were that his injuries were not too severe . |
| 27 | And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well . |
| 28 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 29 | What is clear is that his behaviour was geared to the available audience . |
| 30 | And the weakness of these works is not just that Hall can not integrate ‘ arty ’ steps into jazz without them looking like destitute cliches , it is that his dancers are not adequately trained to look comfortable in mainstream styles . |