Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 2 | The particular incident that led to his removal was apparently as follows . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if his reversion is less than 14 months longer than the sublease , on the expiry of the sublease he will not be the competent landlord for the purposes of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 if his own landlord is prompt in serving a section 25 notice . |
| 4 | When he left 24 years later , his majority was more than 14,000 . |
| 5 | Unlike Jane 's father , who was bilingual , his accent was always as broad , whether he was in Suffolk or Scotland . |
| 6 | Under rules which came into effect last autumn , as his sentence was less than four years , he will be freed from jail automatically after serving half the term , unless he reoffends . |
| 7 | His mouth was exactly as she remembered it , with the well-defined lips , just full enough to give an unexpectedly sensual outline . |
| 8 | But , now and then , she wanted to be at his side when his mind was still and there was nothing there but the sweetness within the forbidding exterior ; and the love . |
| 9 | His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west . |
| 10 | In a Court of Appeal decision , reported in the same volume as the case from which the passage above is taken , Lord Denning thought that there was a breach of the peace ‘ whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it ’ . |
| 11 | There is a breach of the peace whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it . ’ |
| 12 | The overwhelming case for his inclusion was neither as Archbishop nor as martyr but as author of the magnificent liturgy which held the Church together during the tribulations of the next century , and above all for his Collects , which Anglicans through four centuries would learn by heart as children and recite when they came to die . |
| 13 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 14 | In the context of a business sale an employee will be redundant if his dismissal was wholly or mainly attributable either to the change in location of the business or to the fact that fewer employees are now required for the business . |
| 15 | Yet because Siferwas worked outside the main centres of manuscript production , his influence was less than his achievement merited . |
| 16 | On occasions he seems wistful and quiet but his attitude is definitely and generally antisocial . |
| 17 | On occasions he seems wistful and quiet but his attitude is definitely and generally antisocial . |
| 18 | His attitude was more than just mockery . |
| 19 | Friedman 's early guitar lessons were not what you 'd call fruitful , since his teacher was less than keen on showing Marty his favourite Frehley licks . |
| 20 | His community is emotionally and morally primitive . |
| 21 | Only those with short memories would subscribe to the notion that he guided a hick club to new heights — Real Sociedad were twice Spanish champions in the early Eighties — but his record was more than respectable . |
| 22 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 23 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |
| 24 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 25 | Paul , erm he was his wife was there and his dad he went for a bath for a walk , a walk around |
| 26 | He seemed alright at the moment , though , and his stroking was even and relaxed . |
| 27 | His father was more than six foot and could toss the caber further than any man in Bunarkaig . |
| 28 | Anyway his father was there and his father had paid and I said no you know , you 've done that . |
| 29 | His absence was more than compensated for by her mother Vanne , whom she obviously adores . |
| 30 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |