Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two headships in Inner London he sought to keep his provincial school as one which was good at caring for its pupils as well as one which was well organized in providing sought-after subjects on top of the core curriculum . |
| 2 | After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again . |
| 3 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 4 | ‘ But if any man will read aloud on alternate mornings for a single month a page of Pindar and a page of the Psalms in any translation he chooses , I think I can guess which he will first grow tired of . ’ |
| 5 | In cross examination he accepted that there was no such reference in any report he had written in this case and agreed that quote , I do n't think I 've discussed Cheshire Homes before today , unquote . |
| 6 | As a boy in high school he 'd progressed from World-War-I aircraft-kits to model railways , his mind and his hands responding most happily to the assemblage of pistons , valves , wheels , with their appropriate adjustments and lubrications . |
| 7 | For his work in this field he was awarded the Order of the Hop medal at the International Hop Growers Congress in Tasmania in 1986 . |
| 8 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 9 | Norman was called upon , he was standing on the rock just behind Issaacs , swaying on his hips in that way he has , with his face turned up to the night . |
| 10 | In 1846 Turner patented the use of deck beam for use in buildings and later incorporated different depths of deck beam in other buildings he erected . |
| 11 | Chief executive Ross Shimmon said : ‘ When we met Peter Brooke in late November he assured us that there was no prospect of VAT being imposed on books , but stories in the national press continually suggest that opposite . |
| 12 | Punks were not normally aggressive , and though he adhered to his normal practice of avoiding eye contact in public places he was fairly relaxed about them . |
| 13 | Through his efforts in this direction he effectively mocks much that is dear to scholars , historians , literary critics and art historians , especially the concept of a clear chronological sequence : his answer to the problem of how a Mexican can ‘ belong ’ to the dynasty of European art is , as it were , to invade it retrospectively . |
| 14 | During late visits to Stinsford in old age he would often visit the unmarked grave of Louisa Harding |
| 15 | On one occasion in this period he was unusually self-revealing in a conversation with Virginia Woolf ; she sensed an agonized and lonely man , filled with " self-torture , doubt , conceit , desire for warmth and intimacy " . |
| 16 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 17 | If , however , Rueschemeyer were making not a positive statement about substantive differences between law and medicine in this respect but a statement about general beliefs in such differences he would be on surer ground . |
| 18 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 19 | By night for twelve hours in another boat he sailed through the Underworld beneath the earth , bringing his light to the lower darkness . |
| 20 | Like many experts in this line he finds his days are taken up by writing and talking about gardening , with precious little time left to get down to the gardening himself . |
| 21 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 22 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 23 | Copland — was , at 44 , getting on in years for commando work , but as a works manager in civilian life he had the experience of technical organisation needed for such ventures . |
| 24 | Everybody knows if yi laugh at a man in That Way he will wilt for ever , wo n't he ? |
| 25 | Claiming significant differences in post-PACE activities he suggested these showed the need for legal measures to impact upon police practice and influence change . |
| 26 | At Abydos in Upper Egypt he absorbed the characteristics of the deity Khentamentiu , Lord of the Westerners , an ancient god of cemeteries , and became the ruler and god of the dead , and Abydos developed into another great centre for Osiris worship . |
| 27 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 28 | Returning to El Salvador in that year he merged the Nationalis Revolutionary Movement ( MNR , founded by Ungo in the mid-1960s ) into the Democratic Convergence coalition , standing as its presidential candidate in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 29 | He should be free to use or disclose or sell his skill and knowledge after the end of employment in any way he thinks fit . |
| 30 | Was it Michael Cain in that movie he was in over the weekend , er |