Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also noted that Mr Mowatt has accumulated arrears of leave , so that his availability during the period of notice will be reduced . |
| 2 | But we are soon warned that the young officer in the Venturer hides in his memory the image of a girl met years before , so that his response to a strange night-vision seems entirely logical . |
| 3 | Despite being separated from his wife Zulema , Menem had shown remarkable loyalty to her family in the face of such scandals , so much so that his judgement in appointing aides and ministers began to be widely questioned . |
| 4 | De Niro 's slightly unhinged devotion to detail , the madness in his method , is well documented the best recent example being his insistence on wearing silk underwear from the same store that supplied Al Capone so that his portrayal of the Chicago gangster in The Untouchables felt just right . |
| 5 | Even if the vendor is selling the whole of his trade , it seems from Inland Revenue Statement of Practice 8/81 that he can invest the proceeds of sale in acquiring new qualifying assets , as part of a new trade , and this will count as the same trade for roll-over relief purposes , so that his gain on the sale of the assets of the old trade is deferred . |
| 6 | It was just as well that he would soon be yoked to Virginia , so that his desire for his headstrong gypsy would never be allowed free rein . |
| 7 | He received additional stimulation from holiday excursions and tours , so that his visit to France ( combined with a reading of Milton ) encouraged him to explore the possibilities of a new form — for him — the sonnet . |
| 8 | Peons made sacrificial meat and the men smelt this on Gomez so that his command of them was tentative . |
| 9 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 10 | For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern . |
| 11 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |
| 12 | It was not only that his daughter in this prepossessing dining room seemed an unfamiliar creature , that his son was slightly uncomfortable , and that Thomas with his mercurial wit and ironic eyes felt like a friend recovered from a distant past . |
| 13 | And , perhaps because his time in France immersed him in French culture , which takes the social sciences more seriously than Britain 's , he has plenty of respect for medical sociology . |
| 14 | Perhaps because his view on the main point is the same as mine , but certainly because I consider it to be a clear exposition , I here reproduce the statement of Professor Smith in The Law of Theft , 6th ed. , ch . |
| 15 | Mr Vafa , 46 , claims that the imposition of an interdict in the Court of Session as part of a divorce decree ten years ago was done wrongly because his solicitor at the time failed to represent him . |
| 16 | Because it had suddenly occurred to her that Guy Sterne was bothering to justify himself like this only because his relationship with Nicola Schreider was threatened if he did n't . |
| 17 | Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London 's artisans begun to improve into a more " respectable " class . |
| 18 | Good idea , is n't it , especially as his appointment as chairman has just been announced ? |
| 19 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 20 | But this criticism unfounds Marx 's concept of science rather than his concept of ideology . |
| 21 | In many ways , the framework developed in this and the following chapters is consistent with Paasi 's definition of a region rather than his usage of place . |
| 22 | However , their arguments rest purely on Sartre 's intentions rather than his practice in the latter novel : Sartre in fact adopts a whole range of modernist devices throughout the three volumes , deriving precisely from the narrative experiments of Joyce , Dos Passos , Faulkner and others . |
| 23 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 24 | But the smashed buildings that often surround the portraits now give Saddam 's confident grimace a manic quality , symbolizing the leaders 's departure from the real world rather than his control over it . |
| 25 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 26 | THE latest statistics show that a man retiring in Edinburgh is likely to live four years longer than his counterpart in Glasgow , it was stated yesterday . |
| 27 | They decided Mr Newall was butchered downstairs and his wife in her bedroom . |
| 28 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |
| 29 | A Soviet product rather than Soviet puppet , it would most likely require a Soviet invasion to establish conclusively whether his loyalty to the USSR is his overriding one . |
| 30 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |