Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his policies led to his being condemned by Schumacher as ‘ the Chancellor of the Allies ’ . |
| 2 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 3 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 4 | For all John Smith 's fluent fibs about ‘ fairness ’ and ‘ investment ’ , during this election campaign , his policies promise higher taxation , higher interest rates and a corresponding brake upon consumer spending which will delay recovery by months , perhaps years . |
| 5 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 6 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 7 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 9 | His epithets include The One Who Dispels Darkness , a reference to his appearance as the light which preceded the sun as it rose . |
| 10 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 11 | His contemporaries remember him as ‘ Dear Randy ’ , the epitome of the slick student politician . |
| 12 | By and large the evidence which Engels and his contemporaries saw as significant of the high status of women in primitive societies is often wrong or does not signify what it was believed to mean . |
| 13 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |
| 14 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 15 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 16 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 17 | Thomas Cartwright , the Elizabethan Presbyterian , declared on one occasion that ‘ heaps ’ of his contemporaries had cast aside the old religion without discovering the new , and the minister Josias Nichols complained in 1602 that only one in ten of the inhabitants of a Kentish parish with 400 communicants knew the basics of Protestant doctrine . |
| 18 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 19 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 20 | With an engineer 's interest in how all these tiny ‘ bones ’ had fitted together , Miller had gone far beyond his contemporaries dealing with less complex fossils , who drew in with dotted lines parts missing in their specimen . |
| 21 | Whatever meaning this image had had in Charlemagne 's day , Walahfrid invited his contemporaries to compare and contrast the miserly , heretical , tyrannous Theodoric with the generous , orthodox and merciful Louis . |
| 22 | It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is more variety of treatment , as well as a greater display of creative power , in Monteverdi 's ‘ madrigals ’ than in the similar compositions of all his contemporaries put together . |
| 23 | As so many of his contemporaries did , he had a penchant for traditional cottage architecture and was particularly fond of the Kentish styles and materials , having worked for Lord de l'Isle at Penshurst . |
| 24 | But most of his contemporaries did not share his hopeful vision of ‘ good old age . ’ |
| 25 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 26 | Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow . |
| 27 | Charles and his contemporaries did not appeal for authority to individual judgement or experience : instead they invoked shared role-models and peer-group pressure . |
| 28 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 29 | And if so , would he and his contemporaries have recognised that in pursuing this consistency he was doing science , not art ? |
| 30 | But Gordillo and his contemporaries have had to come to terms with it the hard way , following directly in its path . |