Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the logical part of his mind acknowledged that in all the world he could hardly have chosen anyone more hopelessly wrong for him . |
| 3 | His epitaph declared that for him ‘ the study of languages was a necessity , History a relaxation , Philosophy a devotion , Mathematics a delight , Music a duty , Theology a vocation ’ . |
| 4 | Maslow in his experiments found that amongst his highest men and women ( those who had fulfilled themselves in life ) there were two distinct groups . |
| 5 | Though Minton did not begin until the class was all set up and working , the forcefulness of his example meant that at the end of the day there were eight Mintons instead of one . |
| 6 | His results indicated that in 88 per cent of the 539 ( this represents a subset of the sample of 671 referred to previously , the missing 132 issues arising because the dates of the underwriting contracts could not be firmly established so that they were excluded from the tests ) issues studied , the underwriters earned positive excess returns . |
| 7 | One of his Residents reported that in his presence he felt himself become transparent , every aspect of his character laid bare to Lugard 's innocent penetration . |
| 8 | The relaxation of the censorship which was one of his first actions after the death of his mother meant that in 1780–81 an extraordinary flood of pamphlets ( many of them admittedly on very trivial subjects ) engulfed Vienna . |