Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] that his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Aubrey had accepted one of their many invitations to come on a lengthy visit , it did cross Harry 's mind that his resemblance to his sister might bring back painful memories , but although Aubrey had now been here over a week , he , Harry , had felt no desire to wish himself free of his engagement . |
| 2 | Bunyan 's life and work were a fulfilment of Tyndale 's dream that his translation of the Bible would reach and transform the humblest ploughboy in the fields . |
| 3 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 4 | The lavish donation of Western honours helped to reinforce Ceauşescu 's propaganda that his period in power represented a completely new epoch in Romanian history . |
| 5 | Church archives and traditions recorded and remembered losses of lands , as is hardly surprising : William 's claim that his evidence on Malmesbury came from documents in English is entirely credible . |
| 6 | However , it was certainly not Pflimlin 's understanding that his meeting with de Gaulle had begun the process of forming a new government . |
| 7 | It was always Lugard 's assumption that his reception by the emir of Kano as his ‘ honoured friend ’ owed as much to the emir 's respect for his qualities of character as to gratitude for the restoration of his own eminence . |
| 8 | It seems to us that it is a perfectly proper use of ordinary language and as such to be readily understood by ordinary literate men and women to say of a person in this appellant 's position that his services as an accountant were ‘ employed ’ by his customers , and that this state of affairs is properly to be described by the word ‘ employment . ’ |