Example sentences of "that his name " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the future holds for him , Mr Pozsgay has already ensured that his name will for ever be written in Hungarian history books . |
| 2 | That his name is scarcely known today is a testament to the power of the amateur establishment to make a professional an ‘ unperson ’ . |
| 3 | In my experience , young people in a family have been directed to go and conceive a child as quickly as possible because a dying person wants to see a grandchild to ‘ know that his name will live on before he dies , . |
| 4 | Very few know their MP is a Conservative , and hardly anyone that his name is Neville Trotter , defender of a slender 2,500 majority . |
| 5 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |
| 6 | So cogent and imaginative were his descriptions and inferences that his name remains well known today even though almost nothing in the same vein has followed from his work . |
| 7 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 8 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 9 | The important points for the surname study were that his name had been spelt both as Fortereshey and Forsteresheigh , as well as Forsey and , perhaps most significantly of all , the name of the estate itself was given as Forstereshey . |
| 10 | Breeze told them that his name had been changed , and they laughed . |
| 11 | Mr Naughtie insists that his name be pronounced ‘ knock-tee ’ and as Richard Littlejohn pointed out in his old Evening Standard column , this means that one of our great comic novelists is , in fact , Evelyn Wok . |
| 12 | ‘ Supposing for instance someone came and said they were Mr Unwin , you would check that his name was on the list and let him in ? ’ |
| 13 | In 1961 Gibson reshaped the whole Les Paul line into SG form and the Custom became the white-finished , top-of-the-line model complete with a Gibson vibrola ; Les Paul requested that his name be dropped soon afterwards . |
| 14 | It is well-established that Newton had a most difficult personality , revealed on occasions in outright insanity ; so much so that his name routinely appears on lists , such as those compiled by Prentky and Karlsson , of psychosis among the outstandingly creative . |
| 15 | Thornton agreed to stay , but insisted that his name be kept secret . |
| 16 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 17 | Perhaps that 's why he feels the need to remind us that His Name Is Prince . |
| 18 | But the Colonel had seen to it that his name did not go forward for promotion . |
| 19 | He had never flown in anything other than a Tiger Moth so her requested that his name be put forward for a short Washington sortie . |
| 20 | His only ‘ power ’ was to request that his name be removed from the story . |
| 21 | As a result , a system of confidential reporting to NASA came about whereby the person notifying NASA of the incident was required to give his name and a contact address but received a one hundred per cent guarantee that his name would never be revealed to the FAA . |
| 22 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 23 | So began the chain of events which ensured that his name remains so widely known , two centuries later , because with the title of High Sheriff came the responsibility for the county gaol . |
| 24 | In the event , Wilson not only joined the policy group , preparing two closely reasoned papers on which the analysis of the social causes of the rising crime rate in the group 's report was based , but agreed that his name should be included amongst the authors of the published version . |
| 25 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 26 | They could n't decide what to call the animal , but Danny said at once that his name was ‘ Barker ’ — so that was that . |
| 27 | Be sure that you know the name of the previous speaker so that you can say , ‘ Thank you , George , ’ confident that his name is not James . |
| 28 | To his eternal credit , Griffin maintained his dignity throughout all the traumas and had the great consolation that his name will live as long as the great game is played . |
| 29 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 30 | I was so upset last night that his name just slipped out . |