Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
2 | He reckons NeXTStep can do development five to ten times faster than other technologies such as SunSoft Inc 's Solaris or Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4.2 which he says are weak development solutions . |
3 | He starts by looking at DRG 's pension fund surplus , which he says is worth £25m . |
4 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
5 | His aim , he added , is to build SyQuest into a $1,000m-a-year company by concentrating on the removable disk sector , which he says is high-profit . |
6 | VISystems marketing manager John Phillips claims that 99% of the source code can be retained using VIS/TP , which he says is faster than Bull 's competing Unikix product ( UX No 390 ) , which emulates CICS . |
7 | Meanwhile , DEC watcher Terry Shannon of Gander Resources claims DEC taped out an Alpha Lite LC ( for low cost ) chip last month and believes it is for the so-called Triumph Alpha PC which he says is scheduled to move next March . |
8 | He 's not impressed with the Lamont-Gregory briquette which he says is not the consistency the British market expects and adds that Indonesia and Brazil are already using a similar technique . |
9 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
10 | The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world . |
11 | Mr Reagan says he can not recollect many of the key events surrounding the scandal , which he says was as much news to him as everyone else . |
12 | Branson had prepared a dossier of allegations which he says were ‘ more suitable for an episode of Dick Tracy than for the airline industry ’ . |
13 | The consultancy prospered , but some chemical processes which he developed were not successful commercially . |
14 | The operations of the mind which he describes are reduced to two fairly simple activities . |
15 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
16 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
17 | As he compared the ‘ full rich life ’ of the old back-street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ‘ canned entertainment and packeted provision ’ of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart-throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ‘ sex in shiny packets ’ literature and the cacophony of juke-boxes and ‘ nickelodeons ’ . |
18 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
19 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
20 | The one drawback at speed seemed to be noise , which he thought was louder than in his own BMW 325i . |
21 | But erm police went to visit him again , and says erm you know that 's it , you know , you wo n't , wo n't , you wo n't even be needed to make a statement about where you found it , which he thought was a bit funny . |
22 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
23 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
24 | The Governor returned to Port Stanley from which he had been expelled , and huge defence installations were then erected to prevent any further Argentine attacks , including a massive new airport at Port Stanley . |
25 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
26 | This was advice which he had been unable to fallow himself . |
27 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
28 | First , there was a meeting in Whitehall of the Economic Planning Council , followed by the conference at Trinity College Dublin , at which he had been invited to speak on the subject of European investment . |
29 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
30 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |