Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun pl] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Eric Ashby , vice-chancellor of Queens University , Belfast , was named as chairman ; one of his advantages was that he had avoided publicising his personal views on adult education in the past , although he later emerged as a staunch defender of voluntaryism and a critic of those university extra-mural departments which had expanded by lowering standards . |
| 2 | One of his principles was that children should not be forced to attend lessons unless they wanted to do so . |
| 3 | The chief implication of his findings was that although Leese was the dominant personality of the movement , the literary output usually ascribed to him was in part a joint enterprise of the literary board . |
| 4 | Er and one of his findings was that there was not really enough liaison between erm groups of people in the community . |
| 5 | Rather , one of his difficulties was that he was not fed . |
| 6 | One of his dicta was that all the forts had three periods . |
| 7 | They would have felt more cautious if they 'd known one of his qualifications was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe with a rifle . |
| 8 | One of his promises was that he would ensure liberty of conscience to various religious groups . |
| 9 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 10 | I think he was n't much of a horseman , perhaps had n't been in the regiment very long ; and the great achievement in his eyes was that he had managed to do that long and difficult gallop without falling off . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst thing about his lies was that they were partly true . |
| 12 | Among his talents was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe . |