Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.

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1 The rasp of his beard stubble was a sweet pain .
2 The old man believed , with simple patriotism , that the Service to which lie had given the whole of his working life was the best in the world .
3 Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind .
4 This entrepreneur 's capture of his monopoly position was a step toward eliminating the inconsistencies between the decisions of consumers and those of the earlier resource owners .
5 For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system !
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