Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) . |
| 2 | Operatic hero : although Gian Carlo Menotti is not the flavour of the decade in Britain , in the United States and in his native Italy his name is legend . |
| 3 | Without a record or any other reason to be in print , Morrissey was to be heard advocating the necessary use of political violence in support of CND and in his approval of the Animal Liberation Front 's great Mars Bar hoax . |
| 4 | Albert Speer , the ambitious , calculating , and rational power technician who had climbed to the top of the ladder , and who distanced himself most clearly from Hitler at Nuremberg and in his memoirs , admitted that he had seen in the Führer something approaching ‘ a hero of an ancient saga ’ and , after the victory in France , as ‘ one of the greatest figures in German history ’ . |
| 5 | He is from Middlesbrough and in his early thirties . |
| 6 | Gorbachev , both at Geneva and in his subsequent address to the Supreme Soviet , argued that SDI was in effect a new type of armament , a ‘ space-strike weapon ’ which could be used against missiles , satellites or land-based targets . |
| 7 | These critics see no excitement or meaning in the tropes of darkness , sexuality and desire in Ernest Hemingway or in his cast of black men . |
| 8 | But Sir Edmond had survived and , surrounded by change , he saw continuity in God and in His Church . |
| 9 | Harbour had been in the middle of telling Freddie that in his opinion it was almost a blessing that the theatre would have to close . |
| 10 | He seemed to live his life throughout the summer on two levels : with Gwili and in his own writing and deeper probes into Pater 's works he was moving towards the standpoint of his article ‘ The Frontiers of English Prose ’ ( in Literature , September 1899 ) , that a ‘ most noticeable fact is the apparent destruction of the boundaries between poetry and prose , and between verse and prose … . |
| 11 | He also exhibited in Ulverston and in his diaries talks of preparations for big shows in Manchester and Liverpool , but it is not known if these took place . |
| 12 | Charles IV summoned Peter Parler to Prague from Swabia and in his hands , St Vitus ' became the most important architectural commission in Bohemia . |
| 13 | Unlikely as this may now seem , there will be more interest in Prince Charles than in his wife . |
| 14 | He 's an optician from Stow-on-the-Wold and in his purpose built Sark Adrian is also the record holder on the hill . |
| 15 | Then he looked across at her and , though she was silent , still he knew that in his invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish and in his terrible promise , he had done right . |
| 16 | In his madrigals actually so called , Morley 's technical debt is mainly to Marenzio and in his canzonets to Felice Anerio . |