Example sentences of "of his colleagues [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Coventry 's tenants are the worst in the country , " blurted out a Coventry councillor , But when some of his colleagues on the council , together with fellow Labour Party activists , surveyed the extent to which repairs correctly reported had been made good by the council on several large estates , they found that 70 per cent had not been carried out . |
| 2 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 3 | This was Dr William Silverberg who , unlike many of his colleagues of the day , did not look upon alcoholism as a form of weakness . |
| 4 | An explanation for the phenomenon ( sometimes known as Kondratiev waves after the economist who first identified them in 1925 ) was proposed by Joseph Schumpeter and has since been adopted , extended , and supported by empirical studies by Christopher Freeman and some of his colleagues at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University . |
| 5 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 6 | Polhill and three of his colleagues at the Beirut University College had been kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine ( IJLP ) in Beirut in January 1987 [ see p. 35024 ] . |
| 7 | There was the gleam of a Marat in his eyes , and his eloquence took on a Satanic ring when he invoked the rising wrath of his colleagues against the festering scum that by cowardice and sloth had reduced the British Empire to a moribund thing , in peril of annihilation . |
| 8 | I 've met some of his colleagues in the corridor , stepped back and tugged my forelock . ’ |
| 9 | The author wishes to acknowledge the help of three of his colleagues in the preparation of this paper , Mr J.Eadie , Dr P.Newbould and Dr T.J.Maxwell . |
| 10 | Certainly for his sacking of a third of his colleagues in the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in July 1962 . |
| 11 | He was , it seems , familiar enough with the nature of lesbians and gay oppression not to be surprised or swayed by this , but many of his colleagues in the Labour Party were horrified . |
| 12 | But some of his colleagues in the People 's Party and in the Cambodian army may be less magnanimous . |
| 13 | Any time he could get a majority of his colleagues in the House to repeal it I would be delighted . |
| 14 | The King rather shrewdly asked whether Baldwin had the support of his colleagues in the House of Lords . |
| 15 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 16 | He led successful campaigns to clear infestation on over forty worlds and was respected and admired by all of his colleagues in the forces . |
| 17 | Willys was instantly denounced but many ardent Royalists , including three of his colleagues in the Knot , refused to accept his guilt . |
| 18 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 19 | For a moment , I rather wondered if the hon. Gentleman was following in the footsteps of his colleagues in the trade union movement who regard inward investment as an alien culture . |
| 20 | Most of his colleagues in the Computer Department attended the wedding . |
| 21 | The ‘ soon-to-be-installed ’ Master Fellow ( closely watched by some of his colleagues in The Company ) shows how it should be done . |
| 22 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 23 | John 's gruelling run started at 2 p.m. and along the course he was joined by several of his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police in Enfield . |