Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His policies were empirical , dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation . |
| 2 | But his contemporaries were impressed by a literate and articulate sixteen-year-old , his political views formed and matured in the Irish conflict . |
| 3 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 4 | Inevitably , given his association with building projects , his work on Becket 's shrine , the fact that Matthew Paris preserved Elias 's drawing of a wind-rose , and since most of his employers were renowned as patrons of cathedral or monastic architecture , Elias of Dereham has been canvassed as one of the principal influences in the development of early thirteenth-century English Gothic . |
| 5 | Within a month James and most of his commanders were dead , killed at Flodden . ’ |
| 6 | On 20 September he appeared off Newcastle , but decided against attacking it , as his fellow-captains were eager to move on before the Royal Navy , fully aroused since his intrusion into the Firth of Forth , caught up with them . |
| 7 | Mr Roach stressed yesterday that his views were personal and were an attempt to defend the status quo in the police service . |
| 8 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 9 | He was , above all , concerned with teaching art , and always his views were unexpected and provocative . |
| 10 | He was dismissed from his post as director of post-ordination training by the Bishop of Chichester , Dr Eric Kemp , after being told his views were incompatible with his job . |
| 11 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 12 | My mate was still trying to tie a hook on for , unlike mine , his fingers were numb with cold . |
| 13 | His fingers were numb and he had trouble fastening the buttons . |
| 14 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 15 | His fingers were tobacco-stained as he fiddled with a biro . |
| 16 | His fingers were mauve with the cold . |
| 17 | When he turned towards them , his son and Jacques Devraux saw that his fingers were bright with blood . |
| 18 | His fingers were tight on Farquhar 's shoulders . |
| 19 | His fingers were sweaty , his touch proprietorial , and all at once she wrenched free and turned to the man who 'd come to her assistance . |
| 20 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
| 21 | After the first minutes of trembling outrage , Maldita had stopped behaving as though his fingers were red-hot pokers and reacted almost voluptuously to his touch . |
| 22 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 23 | The rasp of his fingers was distinct in the stillness . |
| 24 | At night his defences were low . |
| 25 | It mentions Bethune-Baker six times in each case with the object of dissent and in one case to imply that his opinions were obsolete . |
| 26 | His suits were black and ill-fitting , his T-shirts scrotty and his hair unkempt — more Johnny Ball than Johnny Rotten . |
| 27 | These records establish his importance ( his operations were crucial to the establishment of the Angevin dynasty in England ) but supply little by way of biographical information . |
| 28 | All his plans were successful , except one . |
| 29 | The officer 's black boots were knee-high , his spurs were gilded steel , his sabretache was bright with sequins and with gold embroidery , his short scarlet jacket was girdled with a gold sash , and his tall stiff collar encrusted with bright lace . |
| 30 | ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’ |