Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the anniversary , two special leaflets have been produced by English Heritage , which highlight his significant involvement with some of the nation 's greatest landmarks : Henry VIII and the Northern Monasteries and Henry VIII and Coastal Fortifications . |
| 2 | These were followed by a wide range of commissions which display his inventive powers , including the Gothic Marischal College of 1837 , the New Market of 1840 , and in the same year his headquarters of the North of Scotland Bank , with its quadrant corner screen and richly decorated interior incorporating the Parthenon frieze . |
| 3 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 4 | Instead he is as incomprehensible as the blurred tattoos which decorate his skinny arms , as jumbled as his own words on What it Means to Be a Skin . |
| 5 | There is no lack of evidence here for his concern for the welfare of his cathedral church and of the monasteries and churches of his diocese ; but this occasionally confused register suggests , even so , a bishop with political and financial interests which extended beyond routine local and parochial concerns , for it includes many documents which show his close interest in international political developments . |
| 6 | In 1909 he was appointed senior lecturer in inorganic and physical chemistry at the University of Manchester , where he succeeded W. H. Perkin [ q.v. ] as professor of organic chemistry in 1913 and became Sir Samuel Hall professor of inorganic and physical chemistry and director of the laboratories in 1922 , appointments which show his remarkable versatility . |
| 7 | There are several pieces among his work which reveal his technical expertise — experiments with collage and distorting lenses — as well as many which are unexpectedly savage in their satire . |
| 8 | Eadberht was Ceolwulf 's cousin , according to the Anglian genealogies which give his alleged descent from Ida ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 9 | Born in 1932 , he retired as a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency in 1981 , by which time his three books had started to come out . |
| 10 | The evidence given above indicates that Martin could well have accomplished this , particularly in the context of the significant advances he brought to the design of the musette , which demonstrate his innovative abilities as a maker . |
| 11 | Lorne sees best when looking through his camera viewfinder — the contents of which become his whole world . |
| 12 | If Rassendyll escapes being a sentimental hero it is because of the spare , simple plots and the headlong speed of the narrative which carry his idealistic musings along . |
| 13 | Lassus was no less versatile in his Italian pieces : such classic madrigals as his early Petrarch settings — ‘ Occhi piangete ’ , ‘ Amor che ved' ogni pensier ’ — and the profoundly melancholy Lagrime di San Pietro of his last years , mentioned in the previous chapter ( p. 246 ) , and the delicious humour of the Villanelle , Moresche et altre canzoni ( Paris , 1581 ) which include his best-known songs : the Landsknecht 's serenade in Germanic Italian , ‘ Matonna mia cara ’ , and ‘ O la , o che bon eccho ! ’ in which two quartets sing in close canon throughout . |
| 14 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 15 | science is ‘ notoriously ‘ blinkered' ’ ( and what do his inverted commas mean ? ) . |