Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 2 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 3 | I witnessed on several occasions horribly embarrassing disagreements between Harold Wilson and Marcia Williams , but it was clear that his loyalty to her would not be disturbed by any difference of opinion or any show of temper . |
| 4 | When , however , one examines Oakeshott 's political writing in the context of his philosophical work it is clear that his notion of tradition is different from that of Burke . |
| 5 | Do not the Secretary of State 's earlier answers make it clear that his vision of Britain in the future is a low-wage economy with the worst employment conditions in Europe ? |
| 6 | The Maharishi has made it clear that his promises of Heaven on Earth are to be taken literally . |
| 7 | Although the new chairman Sir Robert Reid had his critics , at the decade 's end it was clear that his method of management had produced decisive changes . |
| 8 | But when you speak to him it quickly becomes clear that his passion for climbing and adventure remains as strong as ever . |
| 9 | She was tired enough then to feel a certain caustic amusement that John 's infidelity to the firm touched her so much more on the raw than his infidelity to her . |
| 10 | The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 . |
| 11 | With familiarity , he grew less afraid than his mates from the Hopewell . |
| 12 | Within a month of his succession to Kennedy , Israeli newspapers were suggesting that ‘ President Johnson will be more responsive than his predecessor to appeals from sympathisers in the US . ’ |
| 13 | If , while we are praying for the Lord to do a new thing , we are failing to take action in areas where his intentions are perfectly clear and his resources for their implementation guaranteed , then he is unlikely to respond to our appeals to do more . |
| 14 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 15 | Moreover his style is pleasantly direct and his inclusion of occasional personal allusions will encourage the lay reader to trust his judgement as a person and not only as a philosopher of science . |
| 16 | If so , it is doubtful whether his dictum about A 's right to retake the goods is law . |
| 17 | Elton is sensibly sceptical about politicians , police , businessmen , taxi drivers , street buskers , alarm bells , pop groups , New York , the senior management of British Rail , and much else , but his jokes are old , tired and obvious , and certainly not as funny as his moments of hectoring seriousness . |
| 18 | Khruschev 's boasts in the late 1950s , that Communism would outstrip capitalism by the 1980s , had proved as empty as his threats over Berlin . |
| 19 | They 're as smilingly elusive as his expression in the photograph on the boxes opposite me , as charmingly imprecise as the photograph itself . |
| 20 | When you put it to Sole that his approach to captaincy is more intellectual than gung-ho he laughs : ‘ Well , I am not a Finlay Calder by any means . |
| 21 | And how odd that his distaste for genuinely safe alternatives ( wind and wave power ) has become a phobia . |
| 22 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 23 | It was possible that his return to Moila had been sparked by the notice in the papers of Mrs Hamilton 's death . |
| 24 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 25 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 26 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |
| 27 | Sinopoli 's interpretation of Elgar 's First Symphony is less controversial than his treatment of the Second ( 2/89 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 29 | It is not impossible that his severity on Galileo was one way of saving face — an attempt to placate prominent Jesuits still smarting from wounds that Galileo had inflicted on their colleagues in earlier debates about the nature of sunspots and comets . |
| 30 | In terms of setting up his particular theoretical perspective , Bourdieu 's reactions to structuralism have been more crucial than his response to action theories . |