Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia 's Prime Minister Paul Keating pledged on Monday after re-election that his government would begin transforming the country into a republic with the Queen replaced as head of state . |
| 2 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 3 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 4 | THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey . |
| 5 | In seeking to seduce her , he betrays those notions of responsibility that his mother had observed so fully . |
| 6 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 7 | It was perhaps typical of Ferguson that his home debut for Scotland after a period of prolonged difficulty on and off the field should be an unfettered display of the forward 's rich gifts . |
| 8 | Eco says that ‘ Semiotics is mainly concerned with signs as social forces ’ ( Eco 1977 : 65 ) which indicates that it is the mechanics of signs that his ( and Pierce 's ) semiotics describes . |
| 9 | The seriousness of Derrida 's intervention can be discerned from Foucault 's subsequent repudiation of the central thesis of Madness and Civilization and the change of direction that his work took thereafter . |
| 10 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 11 | It is the standard criticism of Goldsmith that his treatment of rural life is distorted by the pastoral myth . |
| 12 | There was also the possibility that he might have aspired to the kind of girl that his father clearly admired — a highly-trained twentieth-century girl , possibly American , possibly with executive experience . |
| 13 | It was a brand of empiricism that his critic Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) renounced as not empirical enough . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |
| 15 | Reflecting on the parson 's fortitude in distress , his manifest care for his wife , and his humble acceptance of divine will , Agnew had felt a sense of shame that his original impulse had been clouded by the passing years . |
| 16 | in 1936 — but it is on the prosopographical works of his years of retirement that his scholarly reputation depends . |
| 17 | At the same time he was prone to a feeling of guilt that his art was not what it ought to be . |
| 18 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 19 | That is why there is so much stress in Luke 's account of the life of Jesus that his deeds and words were at the inspiration of the Spirit ( Luke 4:1,14 ; 10:21 ; 23:46 , etc . ) . |
| 20 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 21 | Ian Rush is likely to lead the attack , despite speculation that his place was under threat but £2.3m Paul Stewart could be relegated to the bench . |
| 22 | Mr Arafat is seeking to reunite the organisation in the face of criticism that his associates are corrupt and inefficient and that his decision to join the US-brokered Middle East peace talks has led the Palestinian cause into an impasse . |
| 23 | This course of action will avoid the possibility of the interest coming to light at a later stage causing the councillor to be the subject of criticism that his view of the public issue was thereby influenced . |
| 24 | No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed . |
| 25 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 26 | Fears that the US-EC trade talks were on the brink of chaos were compounded by MacSharry 's abrupt resignation as EC negotiator on Nov. 5 , amid allegations that his negotiating brief at Chicago had been severely constrained by threats from Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , that he would veto any agreement involving cuts in the volume of EC farm exports [ see p. 39170 ] . |
| 27 | The group 's jointly-owned South African business produced another strong performance and Mr Pilkington is dismissive of suggestions that his group might consider disinvestment . |
| 28 | The group 's jointly-owned South African business produced another strong performance and Mr Pilkington is dismissive of suggestions that his group might consider disinvestment . |
| 29 | Roxburgh is dismissive of suggestions that his team are in danger of a mauling on an embarrassing level from Berti Vogts ' full-strength side . |
| 30 | Malik had such a generalized air of gravity that his manner to individuals never conveyed anything of what he might really be thinking . |