Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] him [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Jimmy Munro 's Troubles ’ ( Ex. 1.8 ) Corvan uses the banality of its phrasing , repetitions , sequences and harmonic structure to help construct a mock-simpleton persona which enables him to cloak the bite of his social criticism in humour ; he plays at ‘ acting the fool ’ , in tortuous verbal constructions and juxtapositions of the serious and the trivial — just as the ‘ Bow , Wow , Wow ’ song originally did — but the real problems of railway accidents , rent and ragged clothes turn the joke around . |
| 2 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 3 | On this prompting the Base controller also saw a trace which led him to challenge the aircraft 's position report at BN . |
| 4 | He has a very good knowledge and superb technique which enable him to sue every second of studio time . |
| 5 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 6 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 7 | There is a wonderful misery that pervades Tennyson 's poetry which enables him to create an amazing selection of emotions . |
| 8 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 9 | He did not hit a crisp drive but recovered with an excellent three wood which enabled him to secure a birdie four to Frost 's par . |
| 10 | In order to claim a scientific status for Marxism as knowledge rather than ideology , or non-knowledge , Althusser invoked Bachelard 's historical epistemology which allowed him to posit the idea of a radical discontinuity between the two , with Marxist science separated from earlier forms of non-knowledge in Marx 's texts by an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 11 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 12 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 13 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 14 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 15 | His pictures are not narrowly documentary though but rich in personal observation and involvement in the visual event which urged him to press the shutter and preserve the stilled vision as a permanent memory-image . |
| 16 | The station which persuaded him to make a comeback says it ca n't believe its luck . |
| 17 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 18 | Fogerty , 23 , appears as a South African boxer — a role which required him to join the actors ' union Equity . |
| 19 | Other considerations of a public character may be present in the mind of the Secretary of State which persuade him to take a different view from the judges . |
| 20 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 21 | The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can . |
| 22 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 23 | Savage vividly remembers the incident which forced him to quit the game . |
| 24 | The 24-year-old local hero failed to find the superb form which saw him win the French Indoor Championships , as he lost his first match to Pete Sampras , 7–6 ( 7–5 ) , 7–6 ( 7–3 ) . |
| 25 | The Forbra Gold Challenge Cup Handicap Chase provides an ideal chance for Major Match to return to the form which saw him win the Charisma Gold Cup last season . |
| 26 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 27 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 28 | They now provided Sukarno with a vehicle for polemic and controversy which enabled him to regain a place in the public eye . |
| 29 | He will drill small holes and insert an endoscope , a thin optical instrument with a light at one end which enables him to inspect the cavity . |
| 30 | Thereafter he did well to hold the round together , being helped by Palmer 's improvement which included him holing a 75ft putt for a two in a first-round 75 . |