Example sentences of "in his [noun sg] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his favour is the attitude of the wily French , who control the strings of most aspects of Europe 's space policy . |
| 2 | Also , the biggest point in his favour was the way he remembered her so well that he not only had not minded admitting it to me , but had been very nice in the process . |
| 3 | Also in his favour was the demeanour of his mount , for although Mandarin must have felt horribly unbalanced he made no attempt to take advantage of this unwonted freedom and run away . |
| 4 | In his head was the account number at the Credit Bank of Zurich . |
| 5 | He was a natural stand-up comic but like all clowns , buried deep in his psyche was the need to be taken seriously . |
| 6 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
| 7 | And : ‘ Constantine in his day was the fulfilment of the promise of God to send a king like David to save his people . |
| 8 | Etched in his memory are the positions of at least 30000 stars , plus 500 fuzzy nebulae . |
| 9 | The constitutional position of the police has been explained clearly and concisely by David Regan in his pamphlet Are the Police under Control ? : |
| 10 | A telling detail which his creator put in his mouth is the ending to one of his earlier soliloquies : ‘ I have said my prayers , and devil Envy say amen ’ ( II.iii.20 ) . |
| 11 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 12 | Paramount in his mind was the thought of his daughter . |
| 13 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 14 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 15 | In his hand are the depths of the earth , |
| 16 | In his hand are the depths of the earth , |
| 17 | A key question in his view was the level of armaments which a united Germany would be permitted to maintain . |
| 18 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |