Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of his programme of visits to the regions of the Russian Federation , Yeltsin on July 22-24 visited the Krasnodar region , the Kalmyk Republic and Omsk . |
| 2 | The solitary willow , the gutted brook : these were the things which Clare picked out as the climax of his catalogue of casualties in this , one of his finest poems . |
| 3 | Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time . |
| 4 | With his ignorance of decisions of the present went an even more comprehensive ignorance about decisions of the past . |
| 5 | He followed that with his century of points at Ganton . |
| 6 | Liturgy provides both a public focus of the structure of the contemplative life and a ritual in which the individual 's experience of the reality of God 's presence within the self is one with his sense of communitas in the body of Christ . |
| 7 | ‘ But I do n't think I would fit into his scheme of things for next season . |
| 8 | In his discussion of accidents of personality Plekhanov offers no defence of his claim that these can never outweigh the causal influence of the mode of production and resulting social relations . |
| 9 | In his discussion of transgressions of ontological levels in which characters are instrumental , McHale remarks that ‘ Characters often serve as agents or ‘ carriers ’ of metalepsis , disturbers of the ontological hierarchy of levels through their awareness of the recursive structures in which they find themselves ' ( 1987:121 ) . |
| 10 | The Crowland chronicler , in his discussion of events at Stony Stratford , makes no distinction between the contribution of the two dukes . |
| 11 | The Crowland chronicler , in his discussion of events at Stony Stratford , makes no distinction between the contribution of the two dukes . |
| 12 | In his message of greetings to Mr Major — in which he used the intimate German du form of address , rather than the formal Sie he uses in exchanges with President Franois Mitterrand — Mr Kohl emphasised that the election result was ‘ a deserved honour for you and a great encouragement for all of us who share the same convictions ’ . |
| 13 | In his highly influential critical works , Jean Ricardou was particularly adamant in his condemnation of readings of nouveaux romans which suggest a mimetic motivation of any kind . |
| 14 | As Morgan ( 1985 , pp. 169–70 ) points out in his review of studies in family history , history never just tells us a single story — there are many possible stories , depending upon what questions we ask . |
| 15 | However , a rather more theoretically informed use of secondary data is exemplified in the work of , again , Durkheim who made use of official statistics in his study of suicides in Europe , particularly France , to demonstrate the validity of his theories of the social causation of suicidal behaviour ; an objective for which the original statistics were not intended . |
| 16 | Young ( 1971 ) , for example , utilising the primary-to-secondary progression in his study of drug-takers in Notting Hill , London , provides what seems like a highly deterministic causal explanation of this process . |
| 17 | And it was on this point that the discussions broke down , as Gorbachev was unwilling to allow any element in his package of proposals to be approved without agreement on all the others . |
| 18 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |
| 19 | In his collection of essays on genius the distinguished neurologist , the late Sir William Russell Brain , concluded about Smart that ‘ clearly he suffered from manic-depressive insanity or cyclothymia ’ and there is much to support that diagnosis . |
| 20 | FAMILIARITY with reports of cocaine barons , death squads and street children will still leave you unprepared for the stories captured by Alonso Salazar in his collection of interviews with the teenage contract killers of Medellin , their families and their opponents . |
| 21 | To get his precious bowl of gruel , Issi had walked 30 miles from his village of Lusulas with his father Abdi , 29 . |
| 22 | We found a solitary gasolene pump and got the owner of it up from his couch of rags in a kennel-like shelter of tin and packing cases that rattled and moaned in the fitful wind . |
| 23 | But Galloway concluded from his study of procedures in Sheffield that prosecution will often be of little value , unless parents can be given a positive reason for insisting on their child 's attendance at school . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the chief minister of India 's western state of Maharashtra , Sudhakarrao Naik , widely criticised over his handling of riots in Bombay last month , resigned late on Monday . |
| 25 | But the question is , can he both maintain that monads do not reduce to bundles of qualities and continue to adhere to his principle of indiscernibles without being guilty of a serious inconsistency ? |
| 26 | Unfortunately he added to his list of injuries by twisting an ankle on landing . |
| 27 | Akira Ikeda , probably Japan 's best known dealer/promoter in international contemporary art , has added an address on Prince Street in SoHo to his list of galleries in Tokyo , Nagoya and Taura . |
| 28 | Stamfordham , too , could look back with satisfaction on his conduct of negotiations with the party leaders . |
| 29 | ‘ What will they do to you after I am gone ? ’ he exclaimed , and told Cranmer that he should change the crane on his coat of arms to a pelican , for like this bird he would have to give his life for his child , the English Church . |
| 30 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |