Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 2 | Gironella 's subject matter is the acclaimed artistic masterpieces of the Spanish past which he reworks in various ways , most dramatically into ironic altars assembled from a variety of painted , sculpted and ready-made elements ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 3 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 4 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 5 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 6 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 7 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 8 | The lawyer advocates formal legal propositions which he supports with reasoned arguments . |
| 9 | From which he accounts for 2 pipes of wine bought at Canterbury from Preston , 1 pipe at London , 1 tun at Canterbury by J. Boteler , 3 tuns at Sandwicum , 1 other tun at Canterbury and for the carriage of the same , £41 12s.2d . |
| 10 | His article is particularly valuable for the evidence which he adduces from contemporary documents , some of which is of considerable importance in helping to determine the facts of Molla Fenari 's life ; but much of what he says is , as will be shown , based on so little genuine historical evidence ( insofar as this can be judged from the sources he quotes ) and appears so speculative that it must be treated with some caution . |
| 11 | One is a rickshaw , which he hires for four rupees a day . |
| 12 | This is part of what makes his eventual faith in God ( which he reaches for other reasons ) a radical reliance on God alone . |
| 13 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 14 | Describing what he does with certain scenes — Neeson 's torture and the destruction of his lab , a helicopter chase across a city skyline — would spoil their visionary kinetics and sheer comic surprise . |
| 15 | Instead of inching his way into new sorties , new lives , he takes what he needs from earlier ones . |
| 16 | What he knows about these things would be great . |
| 17 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 18 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Le Roy Ladurie employs a second sort of explanation to account for what he regards as irrational beliefs and behaviour . |
| 20 | Birtwell acknowledges that there are advantages to having a settle side , but he also pinpoints what he sees as great drawbacks to this approach . |