Example sentences of "which he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones is also determined to increase funding for basic research , which he says the previous government allowed to run down . |
| 2 | But the most objectionable aspect of his article is the airy complacency with which he identifies the psychological morbidity of all but his chosen few . |
| 3 | ‘ In Anthony Asquith 's delicate direction , the film has its power precisely in the care with which he presents the moral discussion of the novel , ’ wrote one critic . |
| 4 | And in one marvellous passage , in which he contrasts the old dispensation with the new , Paul reaches this point as the climax of his theme . |
| 5 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 6 | At present his status in the three books is relevant because it serves to establish Buchan 's particularly energetic version of Ruritanian adventure and the irony and humour with which he tempers the romantic colour of his fiction . |
| 7 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |
| 8 | In this context each individual can emphasise that aspect of the two modes of being for which he has the greatest gift and both may further the understanding of the work of love . |
| 9 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |