Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By consequentialist he means that the moral value or justification of any action is to be found in its consequences , and by eudaemonistic he means that actions are justified when , as a consequence of those actions , people get what they want or what they prefer . |
| 2 | I further accept that where the visitor is , or is advised by , a lawyer the distinction between the peculiar domestic law he applies and the general law is artificial . |
| 3 | On reflection he admits that the 1983 Ulster final against Donegal was probably the closest he ever came to capturing an elusive Ulster senior championship medal . |
| 4 | The distinction he adduces as the crucial consequence of literacy depends upon interpretation of what is ‘ readjustment ’ as opposed to ‘ reinterpretation ’ and ‘ rejection ’ of ideas and beliefs . |
| 5 | Using a variety of official statistics he calculates that the total cost of the elderly in terms of publicly funded services and benefits was at most 103 per cent of the cost of a child in 1979 . |
| 6 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
| 7 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 8 | There is , however , a touching gap between the grandeur of the issues he recognises and the comical or exasperating hit and miss practical manner in which he engaged with them . |
| 9 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 10 | In the end he realizes that the only way truly to understand his father is to become him ; he presents the evidence he has collected as a reconstruction of his father 's actions , thought processes , and emotions . |
| 11 | Although Gregory states in his Histories that Quintianus of Rodez was suspected of treason by the Visigoths , in his Life of the bishop he reveals that the local catholics were opposed to him , because he had moved the bones of a favourite saint . |