Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
| 2 | If Mr Rich found that way of recovering what he had lent Mr Dunn in good faith unpalatable , he could apply to the county court for an ‘ Attachment of Earnings Order ’ instructing Dunn 's employer to make weekly or monthly deductions from his earnings . |
| 3 | Rather than accusing him of anachronism , academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy . |
| 4 | Although in some branches of the law a defendant may be treated as intending the known inevitable or likely consequences of his act , that is not so here , for it would stretch the tort too far to impose liability where ‘ the reasons which actuate the defendant to use unlawful means are wholly independent of a wish to interfere with the plaintiff 's business , such interference being no more than an incidental consequence foreseen by and gratifying to the defendant . ’ |
| 5 | a good deal of egocentricity and naivety is necessary to believe that man has taken refuge in a single one of the historical or geographical modes of his existence , when the truth about man resides in the system of their differences and common properties . |
| 6 | His pre-Wedding Present songs were either naïve social commentary or guileless recitals of his own life . |
| 7 | A high value tends to be placed on certainty and permanence , so that when a child is removed from his natural parents and rapid rehabilitation seems unlikely , he should not be confused by multiple parent figures or uncertain plans for his future . |
| 8 | at the Washington chemical works , where large-scale trials of his tower were made in about 1859 . |
| 9 | If a child grabs toys or other goodies from his small brother , make sure the grabbing has no rewarding outcome . |
| 10 | A male patient with damage to this region was unable to recognize his wife or other members of his family by sight : this was not the result of a generalized loss of the ability to recognize people , because he had no difficulty in recognizing them by their voices . |
| 11 | A bitter wind form the Elburz Mountains sweeps around two 707s parked in front of the low , white , thickly carpeted Imperial Pavilion where , in happier days , the Shah of Iran welcomed or bade farewell to the monarchs and statesmen who came to pay him court , nurture his ambitions and ask for alliances , money or other tokens of his kingship . |
| 12 | Overall , historical ( historisch ) study of Jesus attempts to reconstruct the kind of real Jesus whom the historian , for whatever good or bad reasons of his own , thinks to be worth finding . |
| 13 | To assist him he is supported by leading and junior counsel , the Treasury solicitor or senior lawyers from his office , and by the Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 14 | Charles is unlikely to have suffered much in physical or intellectual terms from his enforced brief stay . |
| 15 | It was only after Sir Dick 's retirement that odd corners of his life became known . |
| 16 | However , Willig further demonstrates that two-part tariffs of his sort are often dominated by more complex schedules in which the largest purchaser pays a marginal price equal to marginal cost . |
| 17 | If it is much easier for senior staff to make negative rather than favourable assessments of his ability , the field officer is faced with an important practical problem of how he portrays himself to his seniors as good at his job . |
| 18 | And he might bear in mind that muddled dispositions in his will could somehow be validated if the jurists were able to construe them as trusts . |
| 19 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 20 | Even among those now no more than peripheral spectators in his life he occupied a poignant hold on the imagination . |
| 21 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 22 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 23 | That is perhaps why he was still sensitive about his public reputation — an essay in Twentieth Century on him by Edward Dahlberg , and a book by Northrop Frye , both incurred his displeasure ; he insisted also that certain lines about his alleged anti-semitism should be removed from the preface to Wyndham Lewis 's selected letters . |
| 24 | Mr Waddington , who hopes to eliminate prison overcrowding within three years , now appears to be satisfied that other sections of his white paper will reduce the number of less-serious offenders sent to prison . |
| 25 | Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ . |
| 26 | We also suspect that other parts of his business are even less above board . |
| 27 | We might even discover that he uses a lower number of abstract nouns than other writers of his time . |
| 28 | Guards and TTI are not ignored as flags , ticket nippers and leather bags are all part of the range , John Beesley is always interested to discuss future requirements and possible additions to his range , volunteers or railway companies are advised to get in touch . |
| 29 | But otherwise , Poulantzas ' assertion is bizarre ; the social and political consequences of his hypothetical periodic interchange of classes ( e.g. in terms of the constitution of political parties and their constituencies ) would be incalculable , and certainly ‘ fundamental ’ . |
| 30 | A so-called soft-conventionalist judge is not barred by this spurious brand of conventionalism from engaging his own controversial moral and political convictions in his decision . |