Example sentences of "[noun pl] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 2 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 3 | Manager Intikhab earned a severe reprimand for to journalists that his players had been ‘ insulted ’ by umpire Palmer 's handling of the sweater . |
| 4 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 5 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 6 | When he arrived in India in 1926 he told one of his private secretaries that his aim was to govern in such a way as ‘ to keep a contented India in the Commonwealth twenty-five years hence ’ . |
| 7 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 8 | Graham Taylor 's stand-in captain even missed an 89th-minute penalty , which denied him the place in the history books that his brilliant individual display deserved . |
| 9 | BBC television 's first Troubleshooter series featured Sir John Harvey-Jones telling the chairman of Apricot Computers that his company ought to dispose of its manufacturing operations . |
| 10 | Korda enjoyed the attentions that his relatively exotic origins attracted from the British press . |
| 11 | You know Paul has lent me some very clean but very ugly old fashioned trays of the sort that people have in restaurants that his mother lent him and they 're they 're a God send ! |
| 12 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 13 | He is determined to get authoritative results , and demands that his associates be similarly single-minded . |
| 14 | Few will doubt that the Great White Shark 's win in Canada is good for the game , but the manner in which he won his first tournament in almost 28 months did little to dispel those nagging doubts that his temperament is susceptible to pressure . |
| 15 | With the Gulf War over , the German leader 's anxious to dispel doubts that his country can be counted on in a crisis , and there are moves underway to change the German constitution , at least to allow German soldiers to join United Nations military peace-keeping operations . |
| 16 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 17 | Eliot made clear in Notes that his true concern was ‘ a problem of the first importance … that of the transmission of culture ’ . |
| 18 | Those familiar with the Williams repertoire will recognize the notes that his voice produced . |
| 19 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 20 | increase goes to arts projects — the museums and galleries improvement schemes and other proposals that his Department funds — and is not caught up in too much bureaucracy . |
| 21 | It was in the midst of these preliminary discussions that his lordship entrusted me with a mission sufficiently unusual for it to have remained in my memory to this day , alongside those other more obviously unforgettable occurrences that were to take place during that remarkable week . |
| 22 | I have explained to King Henry many times that his worthy sister left Scotland of her own accord or , should I say , fled ? |
| 23 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 24 | Eco says that ‘ Semiotics is mainly concerned with signs as social forces ’ ( Eco 1977 : 65 ) which indicates that it is the mechanics of signs that his ( and Pierce 's ) semiotics describes . |
| 25 | Not only can I confirm my hon. Friend 's figures , I can go further and tell him that an additional £115 million has been invested by the three health authorities that his patients use in Cambridge , Peterborough , and West Norfolk and Wisbech . |
| 26 | In the late 1930s , when he still could not persuade engineers that his FM system would work , he proved they were wrong by spending $2 million of his own money on building and running an FM radio station . |
| 27 | He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school . |
| 28 | The fact that it was later more generally recognized is in part due to the attention which Roth 's scholarly and semi-popular writings attracted ; and the circumstances that his findings have not always survived the scrutiny of able younger scholars itself attests his own success in helping to put Jewish history on the academic map . |
| 29 | Indeed , there are moans from some businessmen that his continued tenure in the post is axiomatically linked with the lack of confidence in the Government 's economic strategy . |
| 30 | THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey . |