Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 2 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 3 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 4 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 5 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 6 | The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved . |
| 7 | Ironically , Gough 's rash challenge on Ferguson at Tannadice resulted in a booking which carries him over the disciplinary points threshold and costs Rangers the services of their captain when they visit Arbroath for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final tie on 6 March . |
| 8 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 9 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |