Example sentences of "in the [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 2 | As might be expected , it is the possibility of this absolute otherness , and the ability to excise all violence in the relation with it , which Derrida questions in the first of his discussions of Levinas . |
| 3 | Descartes ' dreaming argument is in the first of his Meditations ; use the Haldane and Ross edition ( Descartes , 1955 ) or any reputable alternative . |
| 4 | Swainson himself , in the first of his Cabinet Cyclopedia volumes , a Preliminary Discourse ( 1834 ) on natural history designed to complement John Herschel 's on physical science , drew attention to the excessively formal meetings of most London scientific societies , where no questions or discussion followed a lecture or paper . |
| 5 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 6 | The problem is that this divine Christ is , in the second of his two natures , the human person Jesus , who is male . |
| 7 | Building on this Aristophanic foundation , in the second of his lectures Nietzsche sharpened the relationship between Euripides , Socrates , and tragedy 's demise . |
| 8 | In the second of his special reports into the crime debate , Bernard Ponsonby looks at the state of Scotland 's police and their ability to combat crime . |
| 9 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 10 | In the second of his reports from Romania , Mike Rowbottom looks at the mountain of bureaucracy which blocks the path of aid workers trying to bring help to a country in desperate need . |
| 11 | In his formidable survey of 1849–50 , London Labour and the London Poor , Mayhew describes a room in the poorest of his three classes of costermonger . |
| 12 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 13 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 14 | In the last of his series on the leaders , Frank Johnson reports |
| 15 | That new-found respect is maintained in The Last Of His Tribe ( New Age , 15 , out Nov 11 ) . |
| 16 | In the last of his periodic reports Eric de Bellaigue , manager of the portfolio , looks back at its performance |
| 17 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |