Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No French cantatas are as tonally wayward , although the keys chosen for the principal movements in the first book ( 1706 ) of Jean-Baptiste Stuck , one of the pioneers of the genre , and who claimed in his preface simply to be joining French words to Italian music , hint at a similar approach ( table 1 ) . |
| 2 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 3 | He was crawling painfully through the undergrowth towards the track , his horse nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | With his emphasis on the scrum and close-quarter exchanges , the French coach wants even his loose forwards to be tight , and the new generation he introduced against the Lions looked inadequate . |
| 5 | His dream only to be fulfilled |
| 6 | Comprising eight installations selected from a working career of fifteen years , the exhibition is the most comprehensive survey of his art yet to be mounted , and has been organised in conjunction with the Kunsthalle in Basel , where it was seen in April and May . |
| 7 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 8 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 9 | But Mize pushed his approach out to the right and had to get his chip close to be in with a chance of halving the hole . |
| 10 | A year later , they were still in his mind when thinking simply of western civilization ; the Papuans came into his memory only to be cursorily dismissed as ‘ weak inaudible voices ’ . |
| 11 | By consequence of his inaction , he is the only leading communist of his generation today to be completely untainted by the 1956 uprising and its aftermath . |
| 12 | After being virtually the first dealer at his firm to pass the Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination , he was applauded by his colleagues only to be shunted off the sales desk into the back office . |