Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his ignorance of decisions of the present went an even more comprehensive ignorance about decisions of the past . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 6 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 7 | 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 . |