Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the antagonism of his opponents was the more bitter for the way in which the left felt that it was being robbed of victory in the country by the propaganda stunt of the Zinoviev letter . |
| 2 | The centre-piece of his plan was the Banqueting House , which would be opened up to the park by demolishing the Horse Guards . |
| 3 | The great cause of his life was the Scottish communion office , the eucharistic liturgy deriving from the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer . |
| 4 | To put the case far too bluntly , one might argue that a fifteenth-century scholar 's chief concern and the measure whereby he was judged was to achieve excellence in that is , knowledge or learning , through teaching and writing ; whereas a seventeenth-century scholar 's chief interest and the measuring rod of his success was the attainment of the high learned offices and the power , salary and perquisites that went with them . |
| 5 | The initial defence of his title was the first world championship held in Scotland . |
| 6 | He was dominant in the air , tough in the tackle and a feature of his play was the stream of stylish , sweeping passes he delivered to his wingers after he had won the ball , so that it was no surprise at all when he was chosen to represent the Southern League . |
| 7 | It did not matter to them if Luke 's betrayal of his friends was the culmination of a long-standing feud between himself and Gallagher concerning land . |
| 8 | But by far the worst of his establishments was the Noir et Blanc , a palatial clipjoint on the waterfront . |
| 9 | David Goldman , managing director of Newcastle-based computer group Sage said the success of his company was the result of the efforts of its management team , not the Tories . |
| 10 | One of his contemporaries was the sculptor Alfred Gilbert , whose most famous work must be Eros , the monument to Lord Shaftesbury in Piccadilly Circus . |
| 11 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 12 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 13 | One of the phenomena of his campaign was the presence of large groups of women who would scream and faint whenever he came anywhere near them . |
| 14 | Subsequent examples included Moreton Hall , Whalley ( 1829 , demolished ) , while a further dimension of his work was the occasional introduction of details of a localized vernacular derivation — as in his unexecuted designs for a house in Rydal , Westmorland , for William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] ( 1827 ) which incorporated the cylindrical chimneys characteristic of traditional building in the Lake District . |
| 15 | John Wesley could admire the correctness with which " an unlearned tinner speaks extemporare " , but more typical of his class was the reaction of one of his opponents in a letter to the Bishop of Exeter . |
| 16 | The gist of his mutterings was the unpleasantness of women , their officiousness , their fussiness and their inability to let well alone , but tie took care to keep his remarks inaudible . |
| 17 | A highlight of his week was the speech attacking nuclear power by Arthur Scargill ( 'a real professional' ) . |
| 18 | Top of his list was the word " Butter " . |
| 19 | The one point that he left out of his speech was the recognition that the measures have been welcomed by the principals of the colleges concerned . |
| 20 | The most widely reported feature of his speech was the proposal to repeal a 35-year-old law outlawing the Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) and similar organizations , and to institute a sweeping amnesty . |
| 21 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 22 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 23 | But the high-point of his batting was the double-century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 24 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 25 | Nor will those who understand the real spirit of his scepticism be surprised to hear that one of his companions was the Bible . |
| 26 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 27 | Somewhere in the back of his mind was the knowledge that Legion wanted the woman kept alive , but the sight of Kreig 's ears had given Ardamal a thirst , and he needed to slake it . |
| 28 | He did not have time now to investigate his own feelings , but somewhere at the back of his mind was the thought that he was , himself , no idealist . |
| 29 | One of his eyes was the sun and the other the moon . |
| 30 | The cornerstone of his policy was the Atlantic Alliance and this required large armed forces to enable Britain to fulfil its chosen world role . |