Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister was the philanthropist Eglantyne Jebb [ q.v. ] and his uncle the classical scholar Sir Richard Jebb [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | On his shield was the rune of Slaanesh whose patronage he claimed from his mother 's side . |
| 3 | His favourite was the making of a copper coinage for England , with which he approached successive lord treasurers between 1579 and 1613 . |
| 4 | His favourite was the telephone directory — all the Smiths or all the Joneses . ’ |
| 5 | The work dearest to his heart was the development of the Retreat House at Wydale Hall near Scarborough , for which he made money available , encouraged the nuns , Sisters of the Holy Paraclete , who ran it , and was grateful when he saw more and more people go there to say their prayers . |
| 6 | David Owen , who , though he could not save his two remaining SDP MPs , came out for John Major and confounded those who said his support was the kiss of Dr Death . |
| 7 | He was dominant in the air , tough in the tackle and a feature of his play was the stream of stylish , sweeping passes he delivered to his wingers after he had won the ball , so that it was no surprise at all when he was chosen to represent the Southern League . |
| 8 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 9 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 10 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 11 | His birthplace was the town castle , a stronghold of the Borromeo family that held most of the western shoreline , as well as the castle of Angera on the opposite shore . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 13 | His sentence was the maximum a court would give . |
| 14 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 15 | His hair was the colour of spun gold , and two body slaves were doing their best to comb it out so that it could be braided . |
| 16 | The crux of his research was the discovery of a circle of churches which included that of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 17 | Detective Constable Potter would have benefited from a similar facility in the office , but his bulk was the subject of severe official disapproval and there was a parallel concern for his health and fitness . |
| 18 | What decided Saad Rashid to steal half a million dollars and seek a life of exile in a country reviled by his homeland was the telephone call from his cousin 's wife . |
| 19 | Remembered now for his friendships with Coleridge , Wordsworth , and Humphry Davy , as central to his biography was the fact recorded by his Stowey epitaph , that he remained the ‘ enlightened Friend of the Poor ’ . |
| 20 | His half-brother was the physician Daniel Rutherford Haldane [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | As Dirac pointed out , his equation was the basis of ‘ most of physics and all of chemistry . ’ |
| 22 | His half-sister was the wife of Peter of Savoy , Earl of Richmond [ q.v. ] , one of the queen 's uncles , and he was linked to a powerful group of Savoyards at court . |
| 23 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 24 | Paramount in his mind was the thought of his daughter . |
| 25 | He did not have time now to investigate his own feelings , but somewhere at the back of his mind was the thought that he was , himself , no idealist . |
| 26 | Somewhere in the back of his mind was the knowledge that Legion wanted the woman kept alive , but the sight of Kreig 's ears had given Ardamal a thirst , and he needed to slake it . |
| 27 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 28 | Only £7,500 of his investment was the franchise fee that goes straight to Athena . |
| 29 | The chosen instrument for his humiliation was the student body — those same pemuda who had forced Sukarno his hand in August 1945 . |
| 30 | Along with every other Arab state he officially opposed the partition , but the others knew his intention was the opposite . |