Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 2 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 3 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 4 | His lordship is of the view , as indeed I am myself , that while Father is allowed to continue with his present round of duties , he represents an ever-present threat to the smooth running of this household , and in particular to next week 's important international gathering . ’ |
| 5 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 6 | He has no legal rights to the property . |
| 7 | Wanless is first to admit he has no quick antidote to the corrosive effect of falling asset values . |
| 8 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 9 | To some extent , the potential harshness of the strict liability rule is mitigated by the fact that , if a person acts in what he takes to be self-defence when he is confronted by another whom he does not realise to be a constable , he has a good defence to the charge , because he is not guilty of an assault . |
| 10 | If the defendant can establish any of the defences mentioned in section 24(1) he has a good defence to any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts . |
| 11 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 12 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 13 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 14 | He has a two-pronged response to the increase in Ecstasy use : ‘ We 're trying to cut off the supply , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ I think he has a terrific attitude to the game . |
| 16 | ‘ Unless he has a terrific wish to , ’ she said , coming last to Edward . |
| 17 | He has every good reason to be proud of the smooth , artistic lines of the completed building . |
| 18 | Where the power is exercised by a minister , for practical reasons , the courts are more willing to hold that he has an implied power to sub-delegate . |
| 19 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 20 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 21 | He has the heavenly Spirit to be his teacher . |
| 22 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 23 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 24 | But He adds an unexpected dimension to the love of one 's neighbour : love of one 's enemy . |
| 25 | Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ . |
| 26 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |
| 27 | In fact he bears a vague resemblance to Crocodile Dundee , although his strong upper class English accent , roughened by a liking for Rothman cigarettes , quickly dispelled that image . |
| 28 | Basically , he reduces the multi-dimensional case to one dimension by imposing a linear restriction on the levels of the different public goods . |
| 29 | ‘ He sounds a real bully to me , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't take to him ; he seems a shifty customer to me , ’ was the bank manager 's verdict . |