Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that his " in BNC.

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1 Those familiar with the Williams repertoire will recognize the notes that his voice produced .
2 Korda enjoyed the attentions that his relatively exotic origins attracted from the British press .
3 The fact that it was later more generally recognized is in part due to the attention which Roth 's scholarly and semi-popular writings attracted ; and the circumstances that his findings have not always survived the scrutiny of able younger scholars itself attests his own success in helping to put Jewish history on the academic map .
4 He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school .
5 The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure .
6 I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive !
7 Mr Clinton can not believe in all the things that his myriad groups of supporters think he believes in , or at least he can not if he is to rescue his presidency .
8 The sounds that Angus heard and the sounds that his wife heard and the songs that they sung .
9 Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise .
10 The problems that his paradoxes raise concerning the mathematical structure of space and time are still being discussed today .
11 Eddie 's betrayal of his cousins is also revenge — he was doing it to prevent Rodolpho marrying Catherine primarily , but at the same time he was getting revenge for all the problems that his cousins had caused him , especially regarding Catherine .
12 John , are you going to , John 's going to read out all the features that his team have come up with .
13 There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on .
14 The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists .
15 Waller was said to have told the police that his own car and his factory in Fencehouses , Co .
16 ‘ Rick claims that Angy was already dead when he got there and he 's obviously managed to convince the police that his story is true .
17 The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south .
18 Taking account of the full literary context of the Monk 's Tale in the Canterbury Tales , it seems that the real disappointment of the Monk 's performance comes from the contrast between his character as a narrator as revealed by his tale and the presuppositions that his appearance has created in the Host and apparently in " Chaucer " .
19 Omar Pound , with Walton Litz of Princeton , has edited the letters that his Parents exchanged through their protracted courtship , and their Publishers have made of this a very pretty book .
20 Where the prosecutor relies on a continuing course of conduct , as will often be the case with offences under this section , a claim that the actor had failed to advert to the consequences that his conduct was having will lack plausibility .
21 For example , automatic washing machine salespeople need to consider the benefits of an automatic washing machine compared with a twin-tub , as well as the benefits that his company 's automatic washing machines have over competitors ' models .
22 To begin with , the term ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined by Paul Brainerd , President of Aldus , to describe the facilities that his PageMaker program would offer to the user .
23 Sentenced to be hung by the peer 's privilege of a silken rope , for his transportation to Tyburn he dressed in his wedding suit , on the grounds that his marriage was the only occasion in his life to have caused him as much distress as his execution .
24 The planning directors of eight companies were contacted , of whom one declined to be interviewed on the grounds that his company did not use environmental scanning .
25 In Hope 's original draft , Pennethorne was dismissed on the grounds that his scheme had three faults .
26 Following a precedent set by The Stone Roses , who broke free from the Silvertone label by claiming that they were tied to an unfair contract , Michael is to sue Sony on the grounds that his deal is restrictive and financially inadequate .
27 I hoped to catch Toby in the Press tent — a good bet since he kept his appearances on the course itself down to the minimum , on the grounds that his editor was not interested in golf but only in scandals that might be unearthed or invented .
28 In proceedings brought by the husband the judge refused to order the return of the child to Canada , on the grounds that his removal and retention was not wrongful within the meaning of article 3 of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction , set out in Schedule 1 to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 , since the father had no rights of custody ; and that , under article 13 , there was a risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation if he was returned to Ontario because of the lack of proper accommodation and financial support .
29 Gates refused to tender his resignation on the grounds that his 8,300 members were depending on him to provide strong leadership in a difficult situation ( The Guardian , 4 April 1991 ) .
30 Surprisingly , for a man of such integrity , Mr Ronson appealed against the fine on the grounds that his wealth was only 10.7 million , an amount which the judge dismissed derisively as ‘ an artificial evaluation done for the purposes of sentencing ’ .
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