Example sentences of "'s [noun] that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 2 | Clovis 's decision that his kingdom should be so divided most probably reflects the precise political situation at the end of his reign . |
| 3 | It was God 's intention that his people should always carry with them the values learnt at Mt Sinai . |
| 4 | When Aubrey had accepted one of their many invitations to come on a lengthy visit , it did cross Harry 's mind that his resemblance to his sister might bring back painful memories , but although Aubrey had now been here over a week , he , Harry , had felt no desire to wish himself free of his engagement . |
| 5 | Bunyan 's life and work were a fulfilment of Tyndale 's dream that his translation of the Bible would reach and transform the humblest ploughboy in the fields . |
| 6 | It is significant of Joseph 's attitude that his legal code of 1787 declared that henceforth all offences were against the State and must therefore be prosecuted even if there were no individual victim willing to begin legal proceedings . |
| 7 | It was clear from the governor 's demeanour that his invitation did not extend beyond the Americans , and the elderly mandarin remained standing apart with his son and his son 's wife . |
| 8 | It is because Gunn does not impose his views on the reader and does not demand the reader 's pity that his poems arouse such sentiment . |
| 9 | Other senators , responding to Mr Poher 's insistence that his age was irrelevant , said in that case , why not vote for Senator Geoffroy de Montalembert , who is only 91 and was first elected in 1945 . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding Gore 's insistence that his decision was based on personal considerations , the decision was widely seen as of great political significance . |
| 11 | Le Destin des Malou ( The Fate of the Malous ) , for example , begins with the mysterious suicide of Eugene Malou , a bankrupt businessman , and the rest of the novel is concerned with his younger son 's discovery that his father was both a crook and , as one of his criminal friends puts it , ‘ a man . |
| 12 | Mr Ford recalls in yesterday 's article that his ‘ slow-burn really reached lift-off ’ . |
| 13 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 14 | 1976 : the year of the drought , of cricket fields that turned brown or white through the absence of water , and of Tony Greig 's announcement that his team were going to make the West Indies grovel . |
| 15 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 16 | Wellington knew from bitter experience that he would be required to make so much conversation at the Duchess 's ball that his supper would inevitably congeal on its plate . |
| 17 | The lavish donation of Western honours helped to reinforce Ceauşescu 's propaganda that his period in power represented a completely new epoch in Romanian history . |
| 18 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 19 | The raid had been a triumphant vindication of Stirling 's theory that his unit could operate regardless of the phase of the moon and could get on to heavily defended targets . |
| 20 | That they should sever contact with Spain strengthened its anti-communist credentials and supported Franco 's theory that his regime was compatible with the western democracies . |
| 21 | It was an act of pure convenience to tell Peter 's father that his son had been treated insensitively and perhaps unjustly . |
| 22 | Reported US efforts to seek direct talks and a limited rapprochement with Iran were highlighted by Bush 's comment that his country wanted " better relations " and " no animosity " . |
| 23 | FIVE children lying bloody and broken in the road below a high tenement window in Glasgow helped substantially reinforce ambulanceman Jack Kirkland 's belief that his colleagues should be treated as dedicated professionals and not as cab drivers . |
| 24 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 25 | I do not think that Kuhn 's claim that his position is not relativist can be sustained . |
| 26 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 27 | Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) . |
| 28 | Church archives and traditions recorded and remembered losses of lands , as is hardly surprising : William 's claim that his evidence on Malmesbury came from documents in English is entirely credible . |
| 29 | From the outset of their relationship it was clear to Noddy 's owner that his new acquisition , like his toy-town namesake , was very fond of motor cars . |
| 30 | We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them . |