Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |
| 2 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 3 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 4 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 5 | Aspects of his work , his life style , are disagreeable to him in the extreme . |
| 6 | Such alternative approaches were open to him at the material time . ’ |
| 7 | However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that John Howard , rising from his grave , would find much more that is familiar to him within the prison than across society as a whole . |
| 9 | The position of Battalion Entertainments Officer was no longer held by Charles within five minutes of the drop of the curtain and although that was gratifying to him at the time , in spite of the manner of his dismissal , there were additional deprivations inflicted by a scandalized CO , that were not easy to bear . |
| 10 | Save for one matter , to which I shall refer later , there is no criticism of the judgment or of the order the judge made on the material that was available to him at the time . |
| 11 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |