Example sentences of "[Wh pn] he is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like . |
| 2 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 3 | He does n't even know who he is any longer . ’ |
| 4 | Sally knows who he is though , although he 's never looked after her . |
| 5 | His life changes as he is drawn into a dangerous aura of incestuous relations surrounding the director and his beautiful sister Jenny ( Liza Walker ) to whom he is immediately drawn . |
| 6 | But now he has to face all those people in the great big world to whom he is just another person , starting quite often with his own brothers and sisters . |
| 7 | In the chapter ‘ On the Duties of Persons Engaged in Trade and Business ’ in his Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society in Great Britain , he said the foundations of a trader 's credit were ‘ property , integrity , punctuality , industry , prudence , openness in dealing , freedom from extravagance , from a spirit of wild speculation and from vice , and the character of the partners and of others with whom he is closely connected . ’ |
| 8 | His third cricket book , on the Australians of 1948 , with whom he is imperishably associated , was ‘ To my father , who knows nothing about cricket and cares less , but who was very good to me . ’ |
| 9 | Then Dr Himes and Nick Jelley , with whom he is now working in Oxford , repeated Dr Simpson 's sulphur experiment with a more carefully conceived piece of apparatus and new calculations about sources of error . |
| 10 | Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses . |
| 11 | Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close . |
| 12 | the requirements of his job and to whom he is directly responsible ; |
| 13 | But his daughters , on whom he is as dependent as a baby , refuse to get up in what they call the middle of the night to enable him to pursue his observations . |