Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has a two-pronged response to the increase in Ecstasy use : ‘ We 're trying to cut off the supply , ’ he says . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he has a terrific attitude to the game . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless he has a terrific wish to , ’ she said , coming last to Edward . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 15 | But He adds an unexpected dimension to the love of one 's neighbour : love of one 's enemy . |
| 16 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He sounds a real bully to me , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't take to him ; he seems a shifty customer to me , ’ was the bank manager 's verdict . |
| 20 | And despite an accent that belies his Middlesbrough birthplace Fothergill says he feels a heavy responsibility to the area . |
| 21 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 22 | He gives a definite shape to a side in that he gets his hands on the ball and keeps moving forward . |
| 23 | He gives an expensive present to a dying aunt , hoping to be remembered in her will . |
| 24 | He 's my dead brother 's son and he means a great deal to me . |
| 25 | I have never heard anything so irresponsible and silly ; he does a great disservice to farmers , who rightly put their confidence in the Government , not him , to get it right . |
| 26 | Despite Mr Kinnock 's vigorous campaign and the improvement since 1987 in his personal standing , Gallup 's findings suggest he remains a serious handicap to Labour . |
| 27 | He proposes a stiff note to Tito , amounting almost , if not quite , to an ultimatum . |
| 28 | Each individual must believe that the organisation has desirable , significant objectives , and that he makes an indispensable contribution to the objectives of the organisation . |
| 29 | He brings a believable austerity to his portrayal of the tortured Colombe . |
| 30 | Now he faces an uphill struggle to be fit in time for the British Clubman 's championship a series he had hoped to win this season . |