Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 2 | Unlike , say , Lyndon Johnson , there was no chance of Reagan overwhelming or brow-beating legislators into submission ; nor was he likely to intimidate them as Jimmy Carter often did by dazzling but discomfiting displays of his mastery of the detail of policy-making . |
| 3 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 4 | Herodotus made Atossa advise Xerxes to conquer Greece ; Theopompus put the personality of Philip at the beginning of his history of the Macedonian conquest of Greece . |
| 5 | A long fragment of his history of the years 190–188 B.C. is preserved by Phlegon of Tralles , the freedman and secretary of Hadrian ( 257 , fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 6 | But he could not see , not flung , sprawled , on the flat of his back over the pan and his head against the cistern . |
| 7 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 8 | God knew , however , that without divine intervention and the presence of his glory in the depths of human life such a reversal was impossible . |
| 9 | This is one example illustrating the hypothesis that , because of his inheritance of the capacity to experience the sensations of all life , man has acquired an appreciation of colourful things from evolutionary sources , this example being but a part of it . |
| 10 | Second , ‘ the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints ’ , a deliberately ambiguous phrase which could mean that the saints have God as their inheritance — and what inexhaustible riches lie there ! |
| 11 | He asks , explains Odd-Knut , why , should he want a picture of his hut on the wall when he can go outside and look at it ? |
| 12 | CARTAGENA — The Colombian Supreme Court has upheld the extradition of drug traffickers , decreed by President Virgilio Barco as part of his offensive against the cocaine cartels , writes Simon Fisher . |
| 13 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Delia , ’ Rosen said , and immediately thought : Blast , remembering her cold reception of his sympathy on the telephone the night before . |
| 15 | Here you remember that Common Law would not recognize the assignment ; Equity in effect would , by compelling the assignor to lend the use of his name to the assignee for the purpose of suing the debtor , or , in the last resort , allowing the assignee to sue directly against the debtor , but requiring him , as a rule , to make the assignor a defendant . |
| 16 | When the Clerical Directory came to be planned , Cox 's professional ethics ( he was then recorder of Helston and Falmouth ) forbade the use of his name in the title . |
| 17 | Political activity consists in bringing ‘ the social , political , legal and institutional inheritance of his society before the tribunal of his intellect ; the rest is rational administration ’ . |
| 18 | Gaunt had used the strength of his position as the representative of the king to break up the opposition and to reassert the authority of the crown . |
| 19 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 20 | In June 1391 Swinderby appeared before Trefnant , and produced a justification of his position on the articles in the Buckingham condemnation and other charges ; because of a safe conduct , he was allowed to depart unharmed . |
| 21 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 22 | But he would do so by virtue of his position in the kinship network not because of his personal qualities . |
| 23 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 24 | From the slight smile he gave her she judged him friendly , but dignified ; conscious of his position in the household . |
| 25 | A former French translator for President Kim Il Sung , he was first secretary in the Congo at the time of his defection , and was welcomed by South Korea because of his position in the North Korean hierarchy . |
| 26 | Derby was a weak man whose subservience could usually be taken for granted ( in Haig 's words he was like " the feather pillow [ who ] bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him " ) , but he was very conscious of his position in the party . |
| 27 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 28 | The problem , again , was shortage of time : Charles had to return with Judith to Francia to make the most of the expected strengthening of his position in the heartlands between Seine and Meuse . |
| 29 | The statement of his position by the master was factually correct , and he had the backing of the law of the land , as enacted by Parliament . |
| 30 | EVERY clear night , a retired schoolmaster sits in a deckchair in the back garden of his home in the village of Farcet , near Peterborough , and scans the sky with binoculars . |