Example sentences of "that his [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |
| 2 | The Bishop of Kimberley , German-born Erwin Hecht is delighted that his dream of decades is nearing fulfilment . |
| 3 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |
| 4 | For it is often supposed that his attitude towards women stands in stark contrast to that of the surrounding society . |
| 5 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 6 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 7 | She suspected that his distaste for students was stimulated not so much by their ideas as by their youth . |
| 8 | Wilson was hard put to rebut all these complaints , admitting that his management of funds had been bad , though as a result of inexperience rather than dishonesty . |
| 9 | On a less theoretical level , it is also true that his expressions of anti-semitism occur in the Twenties or just before , when he was inclined to make misogynistic remarks also ; it was a period when his own personality threatened to break apart , and it seems likely that his distrust of Jews and women was the sign of an uneasy and vulnerable temperament in which aggression and insecurity were compounded . |
| 10 | He later admitted that his knowledge of trams was limited to his experience where , as Chief Engineer , he was lucky to get fifteen out of a decrepit fleet of fifty-seven trams into service each day ! |
| 11 | Regan argues , at careful and considerable length , that Rawls is inconsistent here ; that his duty to animals is in reality an indirect one owed not to animals as such but only to self-interested individuals who have purposes that include animals ( 1983 : 163–74 ) . |
| 12 | Malik had such a generalized air of gravity that his manner to individuals never conveyed anything of what he might really be thinking . |
| 13 | The junior minister at the Scottish Office , Allan Stewart , tells me that his role in matters such as mink in Shetland is no more than that ‘ essentially of a confirming authority ’ . |
| 14 | Motherwell Bridge 's site manager Jim Anderson explained that his workforce of welders , platers and fitters peaked at 31 , with subcontract work undertaken by tank cleaning contractor Caltech and painting contractor Wilkie Hooke . |
| 15 | One morning she laid the Prison Notebooks of Gramsci on his chest , not realizing that his addiction to paperbacks was n't entirely undiscriminating . |
| 16 | Brass instruments mix with flags and uniforms but Macijauskas reveals that his pictures of marchers forming ranks before and breaking up into chatting groups after the parade , are just as important as those of the parade itself . |
| 17 | Chéron also made sure that his string of artists produced . |
| 18 | A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc . |