Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Locke 's disagreement with him does not stem from this . |
| 2 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 3 | But , unless the proviso can be invoked , one must adopt the maxim that the more difficult ( short of impossibility ) is the defending advocate 's task , the more vital it is to see that he does not labour under an unfair disadvantage . |
| 4 | Pausanias describes Cimon 's Theseion as including a picture by Mikon of Theseus at the bottom of the sea ( the subject of fig. 98 ) , and pictures of a Centauromachy and an Amazonomachy which he does not ascribe to an artist . |
| 5 | But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it . |
| 6 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 7 | I laugh , but he does not laugh with me . |
| 8 | These laws may have been ordained by God , but it seems that He does not intervene in the universe to break the laws . |
| 9 | The allied general counts as a character in the normal way but he does not benefit from any of the special rules for generals . |
| 10 | This is the second time in a fortnight the Chancellor has broken with the convention that he does not comment on interest-rate movements . |
| 11 | I would recommend to Ran that perhaps he does not go on such a big trip again , and I 'm going to recommend it to myself . ’ |
| 12 | Tell him that if he does not reply within seven days , the copy letter will be sent to the Law Society ( 26 Drumsheugh Gardens , Edinburgh EH3 7YR ) to form the basis of a complaint . |
| 13 | He does not hint at any restraint in animal fighting . |
| 14 | What Breuer writes is usually clearly argued and factually correct , but he does not refrain from making his own contribution to the field . |
| 15 | That moustache is not an English moustache , the flower in the button-hole is from some foreign field and I fancy he does not care for his pickled egg . |
| 16 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 17 | For such a system to function , there has to be a sense of European identity : no citizen of the Union will abide by laws and policies made by institutions which he does not feel to be his own . |
| 18 | And while he accepts that a lack of funds could be a serious obstacle to change , he does not want to be ‘ mesmerised by difficulties ’ . |
| 19 | No one can deny that he is more exciting , excitable and unconventional , with a mix of old and new Hollywood rolled up into a package that mixes James Dean with Humphrey Bogart , though Nicholson insists that he does not want to be compared with anyone . |
| 20 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 21 | He said he does not want to be late returning home . |
| 22 | He does not want to be probed on questions of public expenditure relating to the Labour party and its tax proposals . |
| 23 | " If a prisoner does not escape from here , it is because he does not want to , " said the state government 's acting secretary , Americo Carneiro Paes . |
| 24 | However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned . |
| 25 | Indeed , even if a proposed market counterparty indicates that he does not want to be a market counterparty under the SFA test , he may nonetheless be a market counterparty in relation to the particular transaction concerned under the SIB test . |
| 26 | To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it . |
| 27 | ‘ So he does not speak of us , then ? |
| 28 | Such has been the division that to describe a sociologist as a theorist is almost to suggest that he does not engage in field studies . |
| 29 | Judgment against him can not be obtained by default ( Ord 12 , r 2 ) ; but , if he does not appear at the hearing of the action he is deemed to admit the notice and is bound by any judgment , even if by consent ( Ord 12 , r 3(3) ) . |
| 30 | Any judgment or order made against a party in his absence , ie where he does not appear at the hearing and a judgment or order is made against him , " may " be set aside , and if on the facts a refusal would involve a miscarriage of justice , the judge " must " grant the application — See Note " Discretion to set aside " under Ord 37 , r 2 ) . |