Example sentences of "he [vb -s] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This final show in the present series left viewers in no doubt about what he thinks of a certain film or its cast . |
2 | Whatever he thinks of the political make-up of this council , he owes a duty to the city and to his council . |
3 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
4 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
5 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
6 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
7 | Educated at Luddesdown before taking his degree at Oxford in 1738 , he was well acquainted with this area for he writes of the old Chapel at Upper Hailing . |
8 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
9 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
10 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
11 | The controller requires very little setting.up , as information the motor 's torque/speed characteristic can be acquired automatically he results of a single run to high speed using a known large inertial load . |
12 | There he is into the moving of earth as well as mortar : having repaired the house , he constructs a vista culminating in a ‘ pretty alcove ’ of his own design , thus providing a prospect to view through the large panes of glass he has let into his lattices ( he disapproves of the new fashion for sash-windows ) . |
13 | He disapproves of the whole superstar DJ scene , however : ‘ At the end of the day it 's only about a bit of plastic — people should n't wet their knickers about it . |
14 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
15 | The picture he paints of the young Arthur Wellesley is of a man who is calm , courageous and decisive in the face of the enemy , but austere , remote and somewhat harsh in his personal life and relationships with others . |
16 | If one takes the not inconsiderable trouble of following his analysis right the way through , it is hard not to be impressed by the picture he draws of an intricate network of equivalences and contrasts , corresponding to the different possible metrical divisions in the poem , and layered one upon the other in a kind of elaborate verbal counterpoint . |
17 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
18 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
19 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
20 | He tells of the Elder Scipio 's tears on appreciating the humiliations to which the royal ladies were exposed after his capture of Carthago Nova ( 10.18.13 ) . |
21 | He dreams of a mass consumer market , with one set per person rather than today 's one per home . |
22 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
23 | And he talks of a European home from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
24 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
25 | He talks of the growing infrastructure of Glasgow 's dance music scene : the clubs , the enthusiasm , Mercury Radio pirate station recently back on air and the next move a Glaswegian record label to showcase the talents emerging round the city . |
26 | If what Gerald said in his address to Congress yesterday that he knows of no Labour MP who wants to break the links between the Party and the unions were absolutely true then there would be no need for this debate today . |
27 | Mayhew , who has a lot of contact with players at first class and international level , maintains he knows of no first-class players in New Zealand using steroids or performance-enhancing drugs . |