Example sentences of "strength of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Does n't seem to be a strength of his since moving to Leeds ) ? |
| 2 | He deposited her on a stool with that casual strength of his and glanced around . |
| 3 | Cameron shot down the little casement of the window and roared out in his own language , with the whole strength of his voice , ‘ We are here , friends ! |
| 4 | Nasser Hussain may get in on the strength of his fielding . |
| 5 | Antonov , the Tambov leader , probably never realized anyway the strength of his neighbours in a period of chaotic means of communication . |
| 6 | Shaw , I suspect , deliberately created the mask of the witty , cerebral sage to conceal the strength of his own emotions . |
| 7 | And he had a status-symbol mega car which he drove very slowly in the middle lane , his knuckles white with the strength of his grip on the steering wheel . |
| 8 | And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ . |
| 9 | In fact he probably stands a round of beers with his mates every now and then on the strength of his unrequited schoolboy romance with a fluffy little classmate who grew up into a sexy , albeit pintsized superstar . |
| 10 | Microsoft and Novell have seen profits soar by more than 50 per cent , and on the strength of his shareholding , Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is now the richest man in America . |
| 11 | In 1949 , on the strength of his military experience , he was appointed to the Ministry of Defence ; and three years later he was seconded to the UK Delegation to Nato . |
| 12 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 13 | Early in the 1970s , the BBC Horizon film ‘ Joey ’ , based on the book ‘ Tongue Tied ’ , a true life autobiography by Joey Deacon about his life in a mental hospital showed with sensitivity the achievements of a mentally handicapped spastic in reaching the outside world by the strength of his courage . |
| 14 | Robyn almost smiled with relief as she appraised his advancing figure — she already heard herself describing him to Charles or Penny as ‘ a funny little man ’ — but the strength of his handshake , and the glint in his dark brown eyes , warned her not to underestimate him . |
| 15 | And gasped in pain and content at the strength of his hug . |
| 16 | She was completely taken aback by the strength of his tone , its edge of moral indignation and the dignity with which it was delivered . |
| 17 | Yusuf , who had returned with a smaller force than before and doubted the strength of his Spanish allies , abruptly withdrew . |
| 18 | In 1945 Ottawa wrote to Ira Dilworth suggesting that I be transferred to the general production staff in Toronto and the strength of his opposition and mine resulted in the postponement of such a move . |
| 19 | In 1841 , on the strength of his recent inheritance from Henry Hope , he assisted the newly appointed Master of Trinity College and writer on Gothic architecture , William Whewell , with funds for the restoration of the facade of the Master 's Lodge ‘ to something like its original shape ’ . |
| 20 | Shaken by her own crazy act and the strength of his presence , real as the hay and the sacks of corn , she became very still . |
| 21 | All she later remembered was the strength of his hands on her shoulders as he forced her back against the bark of an apple tree and held her there , imprisoned . |
| 22 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 23 | At no time should a true satyāgrahi or a brahmacārin seek to avoid the company of women , but whether this justifies him in openly seeking the company of women in order to prove the strength of his brahmacārya vow , as Gandhi himself occasionally did , is a highly debatable point . |
| 24 | He cursed it , surprised at the strength of his own language . |
| 25 | Because of his fame , his history and his continued presence in the sport , as well as the strength of his personality , Emerson remained a figure ; but also the shadows lengthened about him and few who worked with him in those years have much good to say about their relationships with him or with his team . |
| 26 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 27 | The grip was warm and fierce , suggesting that he retained much of the strength of his youth . |
| 28 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 29 | But whatever his current position , either forerunner or leader of the soul pack , the strength of his popular support remains an uncontestable fact . |
| 30 | If he is in combat with Grom the fury of Eltharion 's blows is such that he gains +1 on his rolls to hit and +1 on the strength of his hits . |