Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By night for twelve hours in another boat he sailed through the Underworld beneath the earth , bringing his light to the lower darkness . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Claiming significant differences in post-PACE activities he suggested these showed the need for legal measures to impact upon police practice and influence change . |
| 12 | In each of his nine full seasons in English cricket he took at least 100 wickets , three times exceeding the 200 mark . |
| 13 | My agent is not the brightest of creatures , though like many middlemen in most trades he is usually able to hide this big hole in his mind with his trendy patter and strategic placing of the latest fashionable phrase or concept . |
| 14 | One actor took so many drugs in quick succession he almost died . |
| 15 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |