Example sentences of "that his " in BNC.

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1 What is true of Nietzsche is surely true of Derrida , of whom there are many competing versions ; Norris presumably believes that his contains the truth , without distancing quotation marks .
2 Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment .
3 He discovered that night , in what has been called his ‘ Luftwaffe ’ speech , that his was not a voice in the wilderness ; instead , he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus .
4 However , recent scientific examination by an international team of scientists suggests that his is an early copy of the original now lost .
5 But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party .
6 It will be clear , I think , to anyone reading what Karajan has to say in Chapter 6 of these Conversations that his is an enterprise of particular historical significance .
7 The pretence that his , Surkov 's , opening had been merely a dream was a pathetic cliché .
8 And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday .
9 He received one notable fillip when , at the 10th , an elderly couple exhorted him with the idea that his would be a fine win to set alongside Antonio Pinto 's success in the London Marathon .
10 No edition of Miller 's Dictionary included illustrations on a lavish scale and , although Thomas Martyn recognised that his was an age of ‘ sumptuous plates and ornamental publications ’ , he included in his revised edition of 1807 ‘ nothing beyond utility … to render the book really useful to botanists and gardeners . ’
11 He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain .
12 As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across .
13 He would probably say that his is a case of the unexcitable in pursuit of the unexciting , but the sound , and at times beautiful hockey which he has inspired ( particularly in the second half of the season ) gives the lie to such modesty .
14 He seems to have been shy and introspective , but liked it to be known that his was the power behind the scenes .
15 The incomparable Nature declared that his was ‘ a book fit for burning ’ .
16 It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself .
17 This is not to say that his will be an entirely popular tenure of the DTI .
18 He was pleased , proud that his was one of the few households with milk in winter , and apparently unruffled by the irony of its coming too late , when the calf was already more dead than alive .
19 I had hoped that his would also be the case with the Emperor Peckoltia because as funds permitted I hoped to build up the numbers from two to four .
20 They set about their prayers with a will , always , of course , adding the final coda that His will be done .
21 Concurrent stimulation and therapy from professional staff — play therapists , speech therapists , nursery teachers — can encourage development within the child so that his or her behaviour changes and becomes more rewarding to the parent ( Linscheid and Rasnake 1985 ) .
22 In that his is a daily paper , and that Fiji is quite close to the Date Line , probably he is technically correct .
23 The layout of the aircraft was unusual in that the fuselage was set well back on the wing , that his the nose was very short in relation to the length of the rear fuselage .
24 CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms .
25 Ross is probably right that his is the more common sense view , but it may still strike us as extremely odd that it could ever be one 's duty not to do what which would certainly have the best results .
26 By 1938 , however strongly he might protest that his was an English political creed , he was plainly identified with German Fascism .
27 He asked me if I would be kind enough to remind all parents that his is returning to the Skarloey Railway at the end of October .
28 One adds nothing new to the theory of casework in Saying this ; nor in remarking that the caseworker is essentially part of the case with which he or she deals , so that his or her sexuality is as much a part of it as the client 's .
29 John was perhaps fortunate in that his was a small family : mother , father , two children .
30 It may be true , as Lord Chesterfield claimed , that ‘ whenever he goes … into high life , he grossly mistakes the modes ’ , or , as Walpole did , that his are ‘ pictures of high life as conceived by a book-seller ’ , but Sir Charles Grandison on his country estate nevertheless represents the middle-class idealization of the aristocracy .
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