Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 2 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 3 | I do not know how he reconciles that with the 59 per cent . |
| 4 | He says some of the M-forty accidents have been a result of drivers suffering from fatigue . |
| 5 | And he describes some of the new episodes as rubbish : |
| 6 | The tourist will rent a small receiver for around £2 and press a button as he approaches any of the major buildings and monuments , where a small transmitter will then spout cultural , historical , artistic and commercial information at him in a choice of Italian , German , English or Spanish , at any hour of the day or night . |
| 7 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |
| 8 | He investigates some of the resulting attitudes to money , such as that of the miser , for whom , instead of acting as a tool , money becomes a barrier between means and ends ; this is also the case with excessive extravagance , where the overcoming of price as a constraint becomes the source and end of action . |
| 9 | He attributes this to the unique chewing methods of the ornithopods , and suggests perhaps it was the flowering plants that promoted the decline of the sauropods and their gizzard-stone type of digestion . |
| 10 | When it comes to third world development the Bishop says he gives each of the three main parties two cheers . |
| 11 | Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary . |
| 12 | The co-pilot sits on a jump seat just aft of the pedestal , from where he operates all of the normal controls within reach , and indicates those out of reach to the instructor . |
| 13 | Of those commonly identified as potential contenders , he commands some of the shortest odds . |
| 14 | He believes that of the three , research , policy and practice , it is practice which has the greatest potential to achieve change , both positively and negatively , and that the researcher is dependent upon the practitioner , even where the policy maker defines the research brief . |
| 15 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |
| 16 | Modern avionics items exhibit such a variety of failure modes and are so reliable that the tradesman often forgets how he cured a particular type of fault when he experiences another of the same type . |