Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] of [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the rank and file of his army of conquest of 1016 , comprising Norwegians and Swedes as well as Danes , doubtless contained a fair number of heathens , and it is very unlikely that the Danish church had yet permeated national life as deeply as that of the English . |
| 2 | It is regarded as essential that the client is expressly reminded of his freedom of choice of solicitor . |
| 3 | The patient has to be encouraged to eat his food correctly , as part of his recovery of control of his facial muscles . |
| 4 | At last the Council wrote to Osiris , who replied with the threat of his power of ruler of the dead , who feared neither god nor man , and who demanded justice for his son . |
| 5 | In 1265 , for example , Roger Leyburn , Justice of the Forest north of Trent , received royal approval of his appointment of Roger of Lancaster as his deputy , since he was unable to attend to his duties in person . |
| 6 | With his ignorance of decisions of the present went an even more comprehensive ignorance about decisions of the past . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Samuel Sharp in his History of Stamford of 1847 says : ‘ It is most likely … that certain localities … were set apart by the Druids for the assemblage of their pupils and disciples : and why may not Stamford be one of these ? ’ |
| 10 | The major weakness in Bukharin 's presentation of crisis theory lies in his lack of appreciation of the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process . |
| 11 | No one in the Sudanese government had been willing to meet her , she said , and the Sudanese government had not responded to approaches made by the UK ambassador to Sudan , Allan Ramsay , in his capacity of chairman of the group of west European donor countries in Khartoum . |
| 12 | The catalogue centres on the public lectures the artist gave in his capacity of Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy between 1807 and 1837 . |
| 13 | The excited chatter hushed as Charles in his capacity of presenter of the affair , came before the curtain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They also acted for the Trust which owns Canova 's ‘ Three Graces ’ , so nearly exported from the United Kingdom in 1989 , and for Lord Northampton in his acquisition of part of the Roman Sevso treasure , at present the subject of a legal dispute in the New York courts . |
| 16 | Not only did Robert Recorde write the first series of mathematics texts in English : he expressed ( in his Ground of Artes of 1543 ) a very modern viewpoint . |
| 17 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 18 | Campaign , the advertising industry trade paper , noted that he had happily accepted the deletion of the suffix ‘ man ’ from his title of Chairman of News on Sunday Publishing plc . |
| 19 | In 1903 Boase retired from his post of librarian of the Law Society and devoted the rest of his life to his biographical work . |
| 20 | Franco 's refusal to recognize that autarchy was economically and politically untenable was due partly to his belief that liberal democracy could not bring economic well-being , and partly to his lack of understanding of the complexities of economic policy-formulation . |
| 21 | Little wonder that he went back to his post of principal of UMIST . |
| 22 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 23 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 24 | Even in Brittany , which was a much less wealthy province than Normandy , there were rewards to be won : Sir Thomas Dagworth , for instance , was paid 25,000 gold écus as a reward for his capture of Charles of Blois , and the English garrisons in Brittany plundered the surrounding countryside . |
| 25 | All who knew Victor respected him both for his depth of knowledge of VAT , particularly in the land and property area , and for the innate wisdom and common sense he showed in advising his many friends and clients . |
| 26 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 27 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 28 | Among Continental names I did not know , such as Waldman and Krempe , I was interested to see British ones , including those of Joseph Priestley , represented by his History of Electricity of 1767 ; and Erasmus Darwin , by The Botanic Garden , Phytologia , and The Temple of Nature . |
| 29 | This confuses the issue , and is produced by his misunderstanding of philosophy of social and natural science , as was shown in Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |