Example sentences of "[that] his [adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other members of staff knew that his apparent simpleness was due to a sad childhood ; he had been brutally beaten by his father and this had resulted in his withdrawing into himself . |
| 2 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 3 | He had started at the back of the good book and was perversely working his way towards Genesis , which meant that his eldest daughter was called Revelation Straker ; a young woman as pretty as her name , and as happy as all the other children who grew up under Bonefish 's skinny care . |
| 4 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |
| 5 | At this she turned on Karelius a look of such desperate gratitude that his selfish irritation was quite vanquished . |
| 6 | A brief discussion pointed out that his principal role was that of liaison between the Commission and the Association of Catholic Headteachers . |
| 7 | He later became a freeman of the Salters ' Company , like his father , but it is probable that his chief occupation was as a teacher of mathematics and accounting . |
| 8 | Three months later he was seized with chest pain , but because he had been told that his coronary artery was normal he developed an irresistible desire to chop wood . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I could find nothing to suggest that his general health was materially affected . |
| 10 | The decline was never great , but it has to be judged against the fact that his general image was improving sharply ( Table 8.7 ) . |
| 11 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 12 | Looking at them he knew at once that his long search was over . |
| 13 | The question of married couples came up and one relative expressed shock that his elderly father was being chased for ‘ maintenance ’ — a financial contribution towards the costs six months after his spouse had been admitted to a nursing home . |
| 14 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 15 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 16 | In 1983 he publicly , and embarrassingly , announced that he and Brightman were in love , and that his 12-year-old marriage was over . |
| 17 | He had to be able to perform even though already ‘ at this young age he had a realistic approach to his future and with his ‘ banana feet ’ realized that he could not become a danseur noble and that his great interest was in choreography . |
| 18 | Halfway down the length of the tunnel a patten caught an advancing man under the chin so that his alarmed cry was cut off short as he was lifted and carried for a distance of several paces before he fell away . |
| 19 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |
| 20 | The artist … explained that the printer 's contribution in creating the official lithograph was merely mechanical , that his sole contribution was to reproduce the original as closely as possible , and that she had the absolute right of approval of all aspects of the final prints . |
| 21 | I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock . |
| 22 | Now realising that his gloved hand was touching a wall , he snatched it quickly away in alarm . |
| 23 | The BBC film alleged that his Pakistani supplier was Mr Baig . |
| 24 | It seems likely that his real mission was to find an escape route for the board , so that it could steer clear of the incident and avoid involving the central state in any direct decision over sex education . |
| 25 | The reason for this was that his real name was probably known to the Syrian forces controlling Beirut airport , and certainly to the pro-Syrian Christian Lebanese Forces under Shamir Geagea who controlled the port of Jounieh and had already threatened his life after the NBC broadcast . |
| 26 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 27 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 28 | He knew it was dangerous , knew that his only hope was to flush them out . |
| 29 | But he said that his only concern was to establish whether Mr Ridley 's decision had been in accordance with the law . |
| 30 | This ‘ evidence ’ was never published but he persisted in his belief that his only crime was that he was found out . |