Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 2 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 3 | The only detail known of his marriage is that his wife survived him , and died at Mile End in London in 1793 , aged eighty-four . |
| 4 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 5 | The tragedy of his downfall is that he was tailor-made for the job . |
| 6 | The conclusion which each of us independently has reached in this court on the vital part of his story is that he was clearly telling the truth … we see no justification for disturbing the verdicts which in our view were entirely correct . ’ |
| 7 | The measure of his performance was that at lunch he held a nine-stroke lead over the other morning starters . |
| 8 | The effect of his mistake is that he is not guilty of assault . |
| 9 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 10 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 11 | My understanding of his proposal is that inspections should be carried out only by local government inspectors . |
| 12 | A second line of argument advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify his failure to accede to the request of his patient is that the doctor must continue treatment because to do otherwise would render him criminally and/or civilly liable . |
| 13 | Part of his charm is that you think this must be Jonathan Ross , so similar are their voices . |
| 14 | This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality . |
| 15 | What is characteristic of his interpretation is that he did not attribute any importance to the Maccabean movement . |
| 16 | I do n't intend to start another round of Wilko criticism , but I think much of his problem is that he uses extremely vague formulations and do n't tell anything about his thoughts and considerations . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 18 | The theme of his book is that Africa , to an ecologist , is like an archipelago of overlapping islands . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of his rule is that within a generation of his death , he was as much the subject of legend as of factual history . |
| 20 | The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp . |
| 21 | The heart of his argument is that Lab-our activists , at least since Ramsay MacDonald 's betrayal in 1931 , have distrusted their leaders , and he quotes Sidney Webb 's analysis of the problem this causes : ‘ The constituency parties are frequently unrepresentative groups of nonentities dominated by fanatics , cranks and extremists . |
| 22 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 23 | The essence of his argument is that , during the course of the twentieth century , British society has been characterised by increasing economic regulation and increasing moral licence . |
| 24 | The essence of his argument is that changes in behavioural codes reflect changes in the power and dependency relations they are rooted in . |
| 25 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 26 | The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time . |
| 27 | It was to this latter end that Wilson 's journeyings were largely devoted , while the emphasis of his argument was that acceptance of the union 's position , far from creating a tyranny of trade unionism , would lead to greater discrimination in recruitment and to higher standards of seamanship and greater efficiency which would be greatly to the advantage of the shipowners themselves . |
| 28 | But the horrifying gist of his argument was that Homo sapiens might be extinguished by pantun . |
| 29 | The first news of his condition was that he was winded , bruised and in shock , but likely to be passed fit to race today . |
| 30 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |