Example sentences of "[verb] [that] his [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 2 | The world number nine agreed that his success was the ideal Wimbledon tonic , noting : ‘ What could be better than winning the tournament ? |
| 3 | IN 1826 , Richard Newcomb , the proprietor of the Stamford Mercury , announced that his newspaper was the earliest provincial paper ever' published in Britain . |
| 4 | I feel sure that there were many in Washington who were dismayed when Allende was first elected and delighted when he was removed , but to suggest that his downfall was the result of a U S conspiracy is just fanciful . |
| 5 | Scholte changed his tune when he heard that his customer was the son of a clergyman in Nuenen . |
| 6 | wilkinson was quoted saying that his impression was the opposite ( that gazza was in fact for sale ) — i guess it 's a matter of lazio officials heating things a little up … |
| 7 | Sviridenko 's colleagues claim that his death was the result of his attempts to investigate a lucrative clandestine operation involving works of art from the so-called Zagorsk Archive , a collection of art treasures held as war booty stored in the Pivnaya Bashnya ( Brewer 's Tower ) of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Sergiyevyy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) . |
| 8 | However , in a passage which attracted favourable comment in Baghdad for its unaggressive tone , Mitterrand stressed that his logic was the logic of peace , and that " everything would become possible " if Iraq released foreign hostages and confirmed an intention to withdraw its troops . |
| 9 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 10 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 11 | However , even on the view that the plaintiff must be the target , no malice or spite is required : apart from the protection of the trade disputes legislation the tort would be committed by a trade union officer calling his members out on strike and he can not defend himself by arguing that his purpose was the increase of his members ' wages : unlike the tort of conspiracy , no predominant purpose to injure the plaintiff is required . |
| 12 | Rubino , attempting to show that his client was the victim of a political vendetta by the Bush administration , had sought access to classified government documents , to obtain evidence that the US administration had maintained a formal or covert relationship with Noriega . |