Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [adj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Swain v West ( Butchers ) Ltd it was held that an employee , having learnt of detrimental behaviour of another employee , which was relevant to his employer 's business , was under a duty to report that fact to his employers . |
| 2 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 3 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 4 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 5 | His vanity was exemplified by his taking a house at 36 Little St Martin 's Street ( once Sir Isaac Newton 's , and later rented by the celebrated Dr Burney and his daughter Frances , Madame D'Arblay , author of the once popular novel Evalina ) which was far beyond his means . |
| 6 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 7 | Jehana at Alexei 's side grasped the sleeve of his coat , and he saw that she carried a hiranu which was similar to his own , save that it was encased in a jewelled sheath and was strapped to the girdle which she now wore over her gown . |
| 8 | I then played on ‘ The Fox ’ , which was one of his least successful albums ! |
| 9 | ‘ Because he stayed in the bath too long and got shrunk , ’ said his grandad , who could never get into the bathroom when he wanted to because William or his mum were usually there , her in the bath or him on the lavatory reading a comic , which was one of his little pleasures in life . |
| 10 | The inspection of slaughterhouses which was one of his duties converted him permanently to vegetarianism . |
| 11 | In practical terms this meant curbing the powers and reducing the property rights of the Catholic Church ; hence the ‘ Josephinism ’ which was one of his most important legacies to his successors ( see pp. 458–60 below ) . |
| 12 | The relaxation of the censorship which was one of his first actions after the death of his mother meant that in 1780–81 an extraordinary flood of pamphlets ( many of them admittedly on very trivial subjects ) engulfed Vienna . |
| 13 | Because of a phobia about noise , which was one of his several rather neurotic characteristics , he had his study , as we all know , lined with cork to insulate it . |
| 14 | Then the Dutch representative in his turn alleged that he was being asked to accept a position implying mere equality with that of the duke of Savoy , which was contrary to his instructions : he therefore also refused to attend . |
| 15 | His hair was dressed in a manner which was appropriate to his rank . |
| 16 | Finally , Foucauld was killed by a marauding band which was unaware of his name and reputation . |
| 17 | In Burke 's view , which was orthodox in his time , this was entirely as it should be . |
| 18 | This difficulty was never entirely overcome in the Middle Ages ; but the camel had already been swallowed by Gregory of Tours 400 years before our period opens , when after describing King Clovis 's engaging knaveries , he added the astounding comment : ‘ God … increased his kingdom , because he walked before Him in uprightness of heart , doing that which was pleasing in His sight . ’ |
| 19 | Ironically , it might have been this shadow hanging over him which was responsible for his change in fortunes on the course . |
| 20 | With a lack of concern for place which was worthy of his father , he said he would rather be Minister of Health . |
| 21 | So he dug a bomb shelter in the back yard , which was fine for his wife and little daughter , William 's mum-to-be , but not so convenient for him when he joined the Merchant Navy and found himself out on Atlantic convoys with the wolf packs at his heels . |
| 22 | And , erm , so this , it was , in a sense it was not so much as what was repressed in his ears , the structure of his ego that led to this unfortunate consequence . |
| 23 | The author of the book of Judges shows when he was writing by remarking several times , " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did what was right in his own eyes . " |
| 24 | What was this about his daughter ? |
| 25 | What was novel about his reforms was not so much their content as the spirit in which they were carried out . |
| 26 | He could not help asking himself : what was wrong with his shirt ? |
| 27 | Not for the first time , Reg Butler tried to analyse what was wrong with his son and the way he ran the business . |
| 28 | What was important in his mind , that 's the thing . |
| 29 | It was then that Charlie realised what was different about his old neighbour : no black eye and no bruises . |