Example sentences of "by [noun] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaidar 's speech was followed by calls for his resignation , but on Sept. 23 the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a no confidence motion , encouraged to reject it by Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , usually a critic of the government , who asked deputies not to make such a " strategic mistake " . |
| 2 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 3 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 4 | Thomas Hope , ‘ Homeric ’ seat , designed by Hope for his Duchess Street mansion . |
| 5 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 6 | Liddell was remembered by survivors for his modesty , his unfailing good humour , and his exemplary Christian conduct throughout their time there — and despite his strict Sabbatarian principles , he even refereed hockey matches on Sundays , for the sake of the youngsters with little else to do . |
| 7 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 8 | The Guard Regiment formed by Nkrumah for his protection fought the mutineers and only gave up when they threatened to kill Nkrumah 's wife and three infants . |
| 9 | A range of such collections seems to develop from earlier collections with either no framework at all , or an apparently genuine , utilitarian one , as in the Disciplina Clericalis ( see above ) , to more imaginative and narratologically significant frameworks created by Boccaccio for his Decameron and , par excellence , Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales . |
| 10 | The fear was banished from his heart by pity for his fellow-countrymen and anger at what was being done to the little village of Granard that he had thought would be a haven of peace . |
| 11 | ‘ Now I open tonight 's reading from the master 's great Oliver Twist , the famous scene chosen by Dickens for his own readings and which led to his early death , from the violent emotion that swept over him each time he read this passage . ’ |
| 12 | He was relatively unknown , but was praised by Iliescu for his grasp of the country 's economic problems . |
| 13 | This style was first created by Taglioni for his daughter Marie . |
| 14 | In 1885 he designed Max Gate , the house which was to be his home for the rest of his life , followed , in 1893 , by Talbothays for his brother Henry . |
| 15 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 16 | This auction of music manuscripts sees the sale of an apparently unique sketch-leaf by Rossini for his opera ‘ Maometto II ’ . |
| 17 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 18 | And there was nothing apocryphal about what her undutiful son was to say , half a century later , in his book Basilikon Doron , when he wrote of how his grandfather had been punished by God for his immorality , for his infant sons had predeceased him , and he died ‘ leaving a double curse behind him to the land , both a Woman of sex , and a new borne babe of age to reign over them ’ . |
| 19 | He sits sideways on , in a Pose distantly related to that adopted by Whistler for his portrait of his mother , and holds a furled umbrella in one hand , a hat in the other , as he bends forward to peruse an Etty oil sketch , a copy of the Observer at his feet . |
| 20 | Finally , a remarkably precise date is given by Babinger for his death , namely 20 December 1468 ( 4 Jumada II 873 ) . |
| 21 | But before leaving by train for his annual Scottish holiday on that Friday evening , he inquired whether the Prime Minister wished him to change his plans . |
| 22 | It had been recovered from Lowestoft and adopted by Richie for his personal use . |
| 23 | Aethelbald was rebuked by Boniface for his failure to take a lawful wife and more especially for his violation of nuns and virgins . |
| 24 | That left the 190bhp , 150mph heavily modified Ford Escort — prepared by Eric for his son — without a driver . |
| 25 | Twenty years of working at home later , was n't that same celebrated swinger someone whose body language suggested he was surrounded by concern for his surroundings ? |
| 26 | Robert , gasping for breath in his arms , wondered whether Mr Malik 's request for him to give an account of himself was entirely motivated by concern for his staff . |
| 27 | The silly sheep , the witless pheasants , the dumb cows bred by man for his own purposes had lost all joy and definition , needing to be doused , medicated , imprisoned and fed until , poor bourgeois , they were ready to be killed . |
| 28 | The ex-soldier has been praised by police for his bravery.This he denies saying he was more angry than courageous.Today he remains as tough as ever , defiant in the face of thuggery . |
| 29 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 30 | RECALLED England paceman Neil Foster has been fined £250 by Essex for his ‘ Mr Angry ’ outburst against Lancashire . |