Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] in [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the facts of this case do illustrate the injustice which could arise if Miss Marshall is correct in the admirable submissions which she has advanced on behalf of the landlord , to the effect that in this case he was entitled to resort to self-help . |
| 2 | As a price for his reduction of the rebels , Louis forced from the very reluctant abbot the recognition that in temporal matters he was subject to the decision of the royal court . |
| 3 | She had no need to worry about making herself understood , though , she realised , for no sooner had the casually but expensively dressed dark-haired man bent down to the window than in faultless English he was commenting easily , ‘ Having trouble ? ’ |
| 4 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 5 | He is also the favourite and in many ways he has more charisma . |
| 6 | Financially , presuming on the future can cause us to lose our flexibility to serve God at any place and in any way he may require of us . |
| 7 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 8 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 9 | In 1890 he officially attended the installation of the 46th Mayor in his long career and in that year he also attended the unveiling of the Armada Memorial . |
| 10 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 11 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 12 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 13 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 14 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 15 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 16 | There can be little doubt that in this regard he is correct . |
| 17 | Her ‘ usual stuff ’ had built them both a fabulous reputation and in any case he was n't too sure how she would take such a phrase . |
| 18 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 19 | But the fact that in this year he attended a party dressed as Dr Crippen suggests that there was a large element of conscious display and theatrical bravura in his creation of a character such as Harry . |
| 20 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 21 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 22 | But in politics and in real war he was a child , incapable of concentrating for long . |