Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down . |
| 2 | But the most objectionable aspect of his article is the airy complacency with which he identifies the psychological morbidity of all but his chosen few . |
| 3 | ‘ In Anthony Asquith 's delicate direction , the film has its power precisely in the care with which he presents the moral discussion of the novel , ’ wrote one critic . |
| 4 | And in one marvellous passage , in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new , Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme . |
| 5 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 6 | At present his status in the three books is relevant because it serves to establish Buchan 's particularly energetic version of Ruritanian adventure and the irony and humour with which he tempers the romantic colour of his fiction . |
| 7 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |
| 8 | In this context each individual can emphasise that aspect of the two modes of being for which he has the greatest gift and both may further the understanding of the work of love . |
| 9 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 10 | The , the , the numerical majority he says may just not have the intelligence to make the right decisions and what he 's particularly concerned about is that the uneducated poor who he calls the numerical majority will vote to equalize property . |
| 11 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
| 12 | This is because the founder of such a body is entitled to reserve to himself or to a visitor whom he appoints the exclusive right to adjudicate upon the domestic laws which the founder has established for the regulation of his bounty . |
| 13 | When he discovered Blur were on the same label as Jesus Jones — with whom he shares the same management — Stephen ‘ put a word through ’ expressing his admiration . |
| 14 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 15 | Sir Philip , himself , is likewise full of praise for your son , for whom he has the highest regard . |
| 16 | Abse 's book is full of long digressions — on gambling , Ulster , pornography , spies ( among whom he counts the acquitted MP Will Owen ) , Welsh devolution , Woodrow Wyatt , Enoch Powell and Keith Joseph , Welsh devolution , the ‘ wondrous possibilities ’ of in vitro fertilisation , the horrors of a Conservative Chief Rabbinate , the security services . |
| 17 | In them he isolates the main events of the Passion story for attention in particular ways in the sequence in which they appear in the Hours , except that he begins with the agony in the garden not included there . |
| 18 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates the public sector borrowing requirement will be for 1992-93 . |
| 19 | Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy . |
| 20 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 21 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 22 | And in his book , er , The Age of the Crowd , Moscavisi refers to what he calls the black books of Dr Freud . |
| 23 | We conclude by noting that Young ( 1987 ) , in a paper which attacks the one-sided partiality of much criminological theory , is rightly critical of what he calls the adversarial positivism which characterises the debate over unemployment and crime . |
| 24 | This is the context of Foucault 's critique of what he calls the sovereign model of power , of the idea that power has a single source in a master , king , or class — and can thus easily be reversed . |
| 25 | Barthes 's commentary represents what he calls the step-by-step approach which affirms the text 's plurality by the attempt to ‘ star [ étoiler ] the text instead of assembling it ’ ( p. 13 ) , to fragment and disperse it , instead of unifying it . |
| 26 | As some of Mr. Gould 's descriptions appeared to me brief , I have enlarged them , but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character ; so that , by this means , I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case ; but at the same time , I hope , that these additional remarks may render the work more complete . |
| 27 | But Cureton then groups clitic phrases into what he considers the intonational structure to be . |
| 28 | For the purpose of this paper he ignores what he terms the pre-influence stage . |