Example sentences of "his [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hope is that eventually , if a member company goes into liquidation , the other members will fulfil its existing warranties , and refund money to those who 've lost out . |
| 2 | His hope was that Rab was through , his concentration all shot . |
| 3 | His hope was that he would be able to spend the Easter weekend in peaceful anonymity away from the media , not foreseeing that the press conference would merely be the beginning to a story that grew and grew . |
| 4 | His hope was that the pope would allow the decision reached there to stand ; the plan , however , misfired for soon after the court 's opening the case was revoked to Rome , and Henry was left with little hope of a satisfactory verdict . |
| 5 | His weakness is that he has only four or five votes on the committee and his intermittent appearances and lack of involvement in either the Headingley School or the Bradford Academy will count against him , all past prejudices apart . |
| 6 | Miller said his resignation was because it was best for the re-emerging company . |
| 7 | His creed was that no murderer ever left the scene of a crime without leaving some physical evidence of his crime behind him . |
| 8 | A major item in his creed was that prisons should be lawful . |
| 9 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 10 | His consistent wish until very very late in his course was that all conceivable medical measures be carried out . |
| 11 | Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman 's delay in coming to the House to announce his decision is because , when he looked at the facts , he was minded to reject the application but was told by the puppet master sitting next to him that he had to make a political decision ? |
| 12 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |
| 13 | My lord was a lion amongst men — but his sons are as yet mere cubs ! ’ |
| 14 | The conclusion which each of us independently has reached in this court on the vital part of his story is that he was clearly telling the truth … we see no justification for disturbing the verdicts which in our view were entirely correct . ’ |
| 15 | His story is that she 's walked out on him , but there are one or two suspicious circumstances . |
| 16 | His story is that the Jews had difficulty in getting corn from Egypt in times of famine , and Antiochus IV made war on Egypt to help his Jewish subjects . |
| 17 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 18 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 19 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 20 | His description was that ‘ it is easy to aim for the front room and find yourself in the kitchen ’ . |
| 21 | His difficulty is that , with his economic and diplomatic credit so low , he can not afford to antagonise the West on the Gulf . |
| 22 | His difficulty is that his party has nothing to tell him about what it would spend if it were returned to power , which it will not be . |
| 23 | His difficulty is that , as the election results showed , there is little optimism left in the population at large . |
| 24 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 25 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 26 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 27 | All he said in his defence was that he 'd always indulged in affairs — he needed them . |
| 28 | Among his talents was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe . |
| 29 | The main reason Tony wanted me to keep an eagle-eye on his clubs was because he had Arnold 's putter in the bag . |
| 30 | I mean my boy had a er a terrible accident ten years ago and smashed all his face all his teeth were when we first saw his face he 'd got no teeth left but it 's got them all back . |