Example sentences of "he [vb -s] the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longer-term trading considerations may be far from the Chancellor 's mind as he tackles the more urgent problems of balancing the books by squeezing maximum contributions from energy supply , but a quick tax fix is no substitute for a well-defined investment strategy to ensure the best balance is struck between available supply and demand . |
| 2 | He produces the genuinely startling solution out of a tranced ( generally tobacco smoke wreathed ) combination of the intuitive and the rational . |
| 3 | He highlights the more challenging places , but says that the skiing tends to be on the tame side . |
| 4 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh Raoul , he has the most terrible face ! |
| 6 | He has the most immense reserves of resilience and strength . ’ |
| 7 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 8 | Sir Adrian personally believes there is a lot of satisfaction to be derived from being a top executive , although he spurns the more visible trappings of success . |
| 9 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 10 | He says the most important problem in the British economy is public borrowing and that Britain will make cuts in public spending . |
| 11 | And for budding young adventurers he says the most important thing is to have a sense of respect for the countries you visit and leave things as they are . |
| 12 | He says the most important thing Thames Water said tonight was they 're flexible about the size of th reservoir and are aiming to have the smallest practicable size . |
| 13 | Today he describes the always dapper figure in the Burberry raincoat ( over sharply pressed grey trousers and a tweed sports jacket ) who would come at ten o'clock in the morning for his chats . |
| 14 | The contract for construction of a residential development wholly or partly funded by the Housing Corporation may be awarded to a builder only if he submits the most favourable tender in competition . |
| 15 | Although Anderson does not demonstrate a similar degree of pomposity when interrupted by the chairman , in scene eleven , it is here that he shows the most glaring disdain of politeness moves . |
| 16 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 17 | Bourdieu 's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies . |
| 18 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
| 19 | In particular he remembers the very smart set of poetry classics , and noted his friend 's compulsive reading of them . |
| 20 | Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge . |
| 21 | An aide to representative Don Fuqua , a leading sponsor of the bill , said he expects the more conservative Senate to offer a $250 to $300 million programme . |
| 22 | At the same time he embarked on a great literary work , Syntagma musicum , in three volumes : I , historical , published at Wittenberg in 1615 ; II , ‘ concerning instruments ’ , 1618 ( with a supplementary volume of illustrations , Theatrum Instrumentorum , in 1620 ) ; and III , 1619 , in which , as in the preface to Polyhymnia , he gives the most copious information as to the heterogeneous ways in which these great Italian-mannered but profoundly German compositions may be performed-with or without continuo , with contrasting groups of instruments , voices soli or ripieni , and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ But he 's very clever at getting out of it — and if he manages it without one of us noticing he inflicts the most terrible injuries on himself . |
| 24 | ‘ He likes the wide open spaces of Liverpool and Newbury , ’ he told me , ‘ and I am hopeful that he will run his best race yet . |
| 25 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 26 | Right now , though , he faces the most critical time in his managerial career . |
| 27 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 28 | A single male will control a harem of females , but if he dies the most dominant ranking female will change sex to fill the vacancy . |