Example sentences of "[conj] bears his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Hanson , head of the industrial conglomerate that bears his name , earned £1.38m and Sir Paul Girolami , head of Glaxo , the rival drugs group , £1m . |
| 2 | Although Rob , affectionately known as Mr Brora , has retired , you might still meet him in the shop that bears his name , now run by Colin Taylor , another well-respected and well-liked Brora angler . |
| 3 | It depends upon the precise accuracy of some observations made in 1715 under the direction of Sir Edmond Halley , later Astronomer Royal and known to this day for the comet that bears his name . |
| 4 | His grave is unmarked and it may be that the absence of a memorial stone is connected with the erection of the monument that bears his name . |
| 5 | As well as inventing the thin crisp biscuit that bears his name , Sylvester Graham was also the author of one of the most amusing condemnations of sex ever to see the light of day . |
| 6 | We must not leave the eighteenth century without mention of the great typefounder and printer of Birmingham , John Baskerville ( 1706–75 ) , who not only designed the famous type that bears his name but greatly improved the general standard of English printing and gave us , in 1763 , one of the most splendid editions of the Bible . |
| 7 | ( Previous page ) Alfred Russel Wallace , a contemporary of Charles Darwin , defined the line that bears his name . |
| 8 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 9 | The Timurid dynasty which followed gave way early in the sixteenth century to the Safavids , whose principal figure was that of Shah Abbas ( 1587–1629 ) and principal memorial the city that bears his stamp — Isfahan . |
| 10 | IN his chairman 's statement , Angus Grossart , of the merchant bank that bears his name , spoke of the need for consistency in financial matters . |
| 11 | A flower study by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter , Baptiste , is certainly by the artist , and bears his signature : but the blooms ( and signature ) were pieced together from pirated canvases . |
| 12 | Brunner by contrast appealed to the Reformers , and especially to Calvin , in support of his contentions that there is a ‘ general revelation ’ of God in the ordering of the created universe , simply because it is of his making and bears his signature , and that this has its subjective correlate in man , made in God 's image . |
| 13 | For ‘ a father who both begets and bears his son is not merely a father in the male sense . |
| 14 | Little Master cups ( figs. 50–1 ) had gone out of fashion before a new type : a short stemmed , deep-bowled vessel without offset lip , perhaps invented by Exekias ; at least the earliest we have is decorated by him and bears his name as potter ( fig. 96 ) . |