Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 2 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 3 | He 'll appear at the Renamed National Bowl , now part owned by the Sony Music empire . |
| 4 | For if the student can retrieve an item by dialling a number , he still has to discover what number , and to conceptualize how he might arrive at the correct answer that would give it to him . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 6 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 7 | He marched out of the barracks to make his way to the station — he wondered how long it would be before he could walk at a normal pace . |
| 8 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 9 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 10 | And when the platform emptied , he could see at the very end of it , a forlorn figure sitting all by herself . |
| 11 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 12 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 13 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 14 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 15 | Mr Pannick said he would argue at the full hearing that Mr Brooke had no power under EC law to do that . |
| 16 | Some hon. Members will welcome the partial movement by the Secretary of State for Scotland in as much as we have had the enormous political death-bed confession that he will look at the Scottish situation . |
| 17 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 18 | John Reid has splashed out more than £1 million to buy a new home so he can look at the famous sign . |
| 19 | Unless — nightmare ! — Wilko has got him to sign so 's he can sell at a higher price to Blackburn … : - ( |