Example sentences of "which he [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the rhetorical and social representational approaches can be illustrated by considering a quotation from Moscovici ( 1984 ) , in which he is discussing the social nature of social representations : ‘ The word ‘ social ’ was meant to indicate that representations are the outcome of an unceasing babble and a permanent dialogue between individuals , a dialogue that is both internal and external , during which representations are echoed or complemented ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 950 ) . |
| 2 | His is the name that will sell The Miser , the Moliere comedy in which he 's travelling the country . |
| 3 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 4 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
| 5 | He strongly opposed the orthodox post-colonial constitution proposed by the British government , in which he was assigned the role of constitutional monarch presiding over a Westminster-style parliament . |
| 6 | He was taken ill as he was about to be presented to the President of Galicia before a dinner for which he was cooking the main course . |
| 7 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 8 | Further , the buyer must have made known to the seller the particular purpose for which he was buying the goods . |
| 9 | In the view of the Court , the sentencer had given proper recognition of the seriousness of the history and the offences for which he was sentencing the appellant , and had taken into account all the relevant guidelines and principles . |
| 10 | While Holroyd Smith and Cornelius Quin took care of the electrical side of operations , John Lancaster managed the day-to-day running of the tramway , for which he was paid the princely sum of £1–15 shillings a week . |
| 11 | In an early draft of the play upon which he was working the elderly public man is compared to a silkworm who has chewed the bitter leaves of the mulberry all his life . |
| 12 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 13 | If he demanded that an artist was dropped , the artist was dropped , nationwide — until a Texan broadcaster , John Henry Faulk , who was blacklisted by AWARE , brought and won a libel action in which he was awarded the record sum of $3,500,000 after a six-year struggle . |
| 14 | In the defence of Tobruk his battery shot down more than 50 Stuka dive-bombers , for which he was awarded the DSO . |
| 15 | Comprising some seventy paintings and forty works on paper , it has been selected by Christopher Green , Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and author of Cubism and Its Enemies , for which he was awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for Twentieth-Century Art in 1987 . |