Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 2 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 3 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 4 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 5 | My father has a flat , which he uses during the parliamentary session . |
| 6 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 7 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 8 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 9 | the individual … will fully capitalise the future tax payments where the debt is created , and he will write down the capital value of the income-earning assets which he owns by the present value of these future tax payments . |
| 10 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 11 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 12 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 13 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 14 | He is now hoping to raise enough money to return to Bosnia to continue his work , and while the thought he had to kill still haunts him he says in the same situation he would not fail to kill again . |
| 15 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 16 | When Waggoner talks of the entrepreneurial spirit that exists on the Tour , he always comes back to Buddy Gardner , whom he sees as the typical journeyman pro . |
| 17 | In it he refers to the lunar eclipse of 30 October 1091 that he happened to observe in Italy . |
| 18 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 19 | The researcher 's own observations , albeit as yet rather unsystematic , seem to be supported to a degree by what he reads in the relevant literature and in other pieces of published research . |
| 20 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 21 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 22 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 23 | But D Dave , Dave , Dave could not handle , in B E S , what he handles on the civil side . |
| 24 | And I know what he means about the long vistas of precedent , like endless suites of anterooms , that open backwards from these recurring moments . |
| 25 | That 's what he means by the black books of Freud . |
| 26 | He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism . |
| 27 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 28 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 29 | This perception leads Le Roy Ladurie to contrast the revolts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with what he regards as the national revolutionary movements of the Enlightenment : |
| 30 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |