Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 2 | After all , if he does n't like the future he has the personal possibility — and responsibility of moving to another outfit whose potential he thinks is greater . |
| 3 | In The Form of Living he charts the sacramental understanding at the heart of the Mass , as a whole way of life and perceived growth in consciousness ; his Meditations on the Passion engage with different stages of such growth and , indeed , are designed to act as catalysts for its progress . |
| 4 | Flight lieutenant Fraser Boyd does n't like heights ; With that in mind he hopes the final adjustments he 's making in dock in Plymouth will render a return visits unnecessary while half way across the Atlantic . |
| 5 | Once it is made clear that the judge makes new law in these circumstances , as conventionalism insists , then it seems plausible that he should choose the rule he believes the actual legislature then in power would choose , or , failing that , the rule he believes best represents the will of the people as a whole . |
| 6 | He refers to reality as Truth and by the use of the term he preserves the metaphysical and ethical connotation of such traditional Hindu terms as dharma , universal law or duty , and ta , the cosmic moral law . |
| 7 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer ; and ( b ) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge . |
| 8 | Nearer home he recalls the late Gordon Coe 's 50 years at Evenwood , Harry Brown 's near lifetime service to Shildon and generations of the Fairbairn family then as now helping football survive at Tow Law . |
| 9 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 10 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 11 | In rhythm and theme he echoes the magnificent coda to Love 's Labour 's Lost : |
| 12 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 13 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 14 | After a thorough summary of the evidence he reaches the following conclusions : |
| 15 | In recognition of his work with the Council and other bodies , David was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1991 , and this month he receives the honorary degree of Doctor of Education from Napier University . |
| 16 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 17 | If during that week he works the following number of hours , how much should his take home pay be ? |
| 18 | His playing is thoughtful and warm , generally responsive to the music 's nature ; and he can turn a phrase charmingly , as with the melancholy ‘ October ’ and in the flexible lines of the central con grazia section of ‘ April ’ ( though at the start he strums the off-beat chords rather casually ) . |
| 19 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy at current trends , how much plutonium he expects the thermal oxide reprocessing plant to have produced by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 22 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 23 | Off the field he takes the inevitable acclaim and adulation in his stride . |
| 24 | Mandela is free he 's out of prison he can address the British parliament , the United States congress , the parliaments of the world he addresses the whole world through television when we held those concerts for him at |
| 25 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
| 26 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 27 | In his right hand he carries the magical black sword Kring , which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard . |
| 28 | In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer . |
| 29 | In the silence he feels the smooth operations of the mind 's incomparable picture show . |
| 30 | Dot 's part in the affair leads John to suspect her unjustly of infidelity , but in the end he learns the true explanation . |