Example sentences of "hence his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Formen Marx is also considering under what circumstances this conflict is made inoperative , hence his consideration of the Asiatic mode of production and the Germanic mode of production . |
| 2 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 3 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 4 | Samuel began in his father 's business as a carpenter — hence his nickname ‘ the Chip ’ . |
| 5 | He became a plasterer , but left his wife in 1825 and became a fish hawker — hence his nickname ‘ Cockle Dick ’ . |
| 6 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 7 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 8 | He stood , at least , for honesty in sexual dealings : hence his preference for the prostitute over the grisette . |
| 9 | This figural aesthetics is a doctrine which opposes the subordination of the image to the dictates of narrative meaning or representation ; to language like rule-bound formalisms ( hence his preference for Cage over Schoenberg ) ; or ( in his ( 1984 , p. 80 ) example of advertising images ) to the dictates of capitalism and the law of value . |
| 10 | Gandhi recognizes that satyāgraha requires self-discipline and dedication hence his insistence on high moral standards and adequate training for prospective satyāgrahis . |
| 11 | Converting that into a winning performance at London is another matter , hence his insistence on downplaying his chances of finishing in the money . |
| 12 | Exhibiting nothing more than competence , he became keeper of the great wardrobe on 27 June 1369 , at the time when Edward III , and hence his court and government , were lapsing into passivity . |
| 13 | In this article , Ross acknowledges the current pressures upon arts education are such that it would be unwise for any arts teacher to declare ‘ UDI ’ from the examination system , hence his decision to aim his argument against examinations in the arts at headteachers , who are in a position to remove the arts from this form of damaging restriction by placing them within a protected , and non-examined core . |
| 14 | He was the chief deity of the mighty fairy race , the TUATHA DE DANAAN , and therefore the father of both mortal and immortal folk , hence his epithet All Father . |
| 15 | A tiny , slight figure — hence his sobriquet , ‘ the Little Wonder ’ — he developed into a ‘ very fast and ripping ’ right-handed round-arm bowler . |
| 16 | They were encouraged to profess repentance and contrition which in the view of CD and others simply promoted hypocrisy , hence his satire on ‘ Model Prisoners ’ in DC 61 . |
| 17 | Hence his resignation : Reproduced by courtesy of the Science Photo Library , London . |
| 18 | Forbes was the most knowledgeable liturgical scholar of his day in the SEC but his published work , and hence his influence , was reduced by an over-strained attention to detail and other scholarly opinion . |
| 19 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 20 | He did n't know who he was anymore , and neither did the Earthlings , hence his name , Doctor Who ; he did n't know precisely where his home was ; he did not fully know how to operate the time-space machine . |
| 21 | Hence his proposal of a ‘ non-nuclear club ’ , to be led by a disarmed Britain , to confine the danger within limits . |
| 22 | Hence his proposal for a competition to describe the significance of the Higgs boson — a target of the next generation of accelerators such as the proposed Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva and Superconducting Super Collider under construction in Texas . |
| 23 | Hence his stay on the Continent strongly influenced the ambivalent feelings he was to entertain towards the war , reflected so strikingly in his poetry . |
| 24 | Most of the time he spends in suspended animation in an interdicted bubble of the warp , summoned here only when intruders arrive — hence his confusion . |
| 25 | For the purposes of this second task , Marx uses information on how the concepts are visualized in other system , hence his use of anthropology and history . |
| 26 | Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing — and drawing the figure especially . |
| 27 | Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ . |
| 28 | Such developments were , for Draper , red rag to a bull — hence his recourse to history for the counterattack . |
| 29 | Hence his attempt to enlist T. E. Lawrence in a campaign to prevent war with Germany in the 1930s , which ended in Lawrence 's tragic death , and his naive belief that since Adolf Hitler had been a member of the German regiment with whom he had fraternized in 1914 he was basically a man like Williamson who wished to maintain peace at all costs , unless forced into war by the manipulation of others . |
| 30 | Hence his concentration on situationism and its 70 's progeny , punk . |