Example sentences of "his [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his sister is sixty-eight . |
| 2 | His sister was five years younger . |
| 3 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 4 | He was in Málaga and when he came back his father was dead and his sister was blind . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you seriously saying it proves his sister was responsible for his work ? ’ |
| 6 | Terry went to the cinema with Sarah , and to the caelidhe with her and Anne when his sister was free to go , but he found the dance very changed with so many men away from home . |
| 7 | His policies were empirical , dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation . |
| 8 | If all history attempts to conceptualize the event , to wean it from its finitude , then Foucault like many of his contemporaries is concerned to respect its singularity . |
| 9 | But his contemporaries were impressed by a literate and articulate sixteen-year-old , his political views formed and matured in the Irish conflict . |
| 10 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 11 | Inevitably , given his association with building projects , his work on Becket 's shrine , the fact that Matthew Paris preserved Elias 's drawing of a wind-rose , and since most of his employers were renowned as patrons of cathedral or monastic architecture , Elias of Dereham has been canvassed as one of the principal influences in the development of early thirteenth-century English Gothic . |
| 12 | This was a narrative which at times verged on hero-worship rather than a critical assessment , but his enthusiasm was obvious , and he had clearly researched well . |
| 13 | His enthusiasm was infectious and the composer Edvard Grieg was numbered among his many friends . |
| 14 | His enthusiasm was infectious , and as Merrill looked up at the lively amber glint in his eyes she could n't suppress a smile . |
| 15 | His successor is unclear . |
| 16 | Mr Stewart is staying on as chief executive until his successor is ready to start and after that he will remain on the board . |
| 17 | Only occasionally under Edward I and his successor were these corrodians clerks ; for the most part they comprised king 's messengers , serjeants , ushers , cooks , laundresses , keepers of hounds , and the sick and injured . |
| 18 | Aleksander Hall , Minister without Portfolio , responsible for co-operation with political organizations and political parties , resigned on Oct. 11 to join the Mazowiecki campaign team ; his successor was Jerzy Ciemniewski . |
| 19 | Calls for his resignation are pointless . |
| 20 | Nizan sensed that the manner of his resignation was unlikely to charm any of his erstwhile Stalinist comrades . |
| 21 | His malice-rating was dismal . |
| 22 | Well , ironically his creed was supposed to be without that was n't it Hitler ? |
| 23 | Frank McAvennie , meanwhile , will today give his answer to the offer of a contract that will take him up to the end of the season and with the promise of a more substantial agreement if his progress is satisfactory . |
| 24 | His progress was such that by 1783 he had so excelled that he was asked to teach the subject . |
| 25 | By the time he returned to Germany in 1948 , his progress was such that his teachers were inspired to proclaim : ‘ He is a brilliant pupil … |
| 26 | His progress was slow because his retention was poor . |
| 27 | His income is higher than his ‘ applicable amount ’ . |
| 28 | Again there might be uncertainty when a man was rising in the world ; Edward Watson of Lyddington had a personal estate of £200 , and as a justice of the peace should be reckoned as esquire ; but in Rutland , at any rate , his income was small , a mere £8 per annum . |
| 29 | In particular , Anthony Talbot of Alton was worth only one mark , though his income was ten . |
| 30 | She said softly , ‘ Oh , his bark 's worse than his bite . |