Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] he [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 2 | His ‘ Dirty toys ’ , as he describes his arrangements of battered dolls and stuffed animals which he rescues from thrift shops , were included in last autumn 's ‘ Objects for the Ideal Home ’ at the Serpentine Gallery and in the Hayward Gallery 's recent ‘ Doubletake ’ , but neither occasion gave a complete or convincing account of the range of his interests . |
| 3 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 4 | Rather than giving the same recognition to differences among literacies which he proposes to be differences among languages , he uses what is in fact the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy as the basis for arguments about the specific nature of the English language . |
| 5 | An individual is a member of a community from which he obtains considerable benefits , in return he develops special skills which he applies for the benefit of the community . |
| 6 | The two verdicts which he attributes to Eleanor make it obvious that , in these passages at least , his intention was a satirical one . |
| 7 | For his third exhibition at Bernard Jacobson , Maurice Cockrill has made ‘ The Four Seasons ’ , four oval canvases which he shows with a group of new pictures on door panels . |
| 8 | At Connaught Brown there are fourteen new abstract paintings by William MacIlraith ( 24 March-20 April ) who is known for the picture surfaces which he achieves with a special wax and pigment technique . |
| 9 | For example , if a program calls for divergent responses to open questions and the teacher only accepts responses which he deems to be ‘ correct ’ , then the potential of the program to stimulate divergent thinking will be at least partly thwarted . |
| 10 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 11 | This novel becomes ‘ readable ’ if we accept the psychologizing interpretation that Wallas is a kind of victim of Oedipal obsessions which he projects onto the objects around him . |
| 12 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 13 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 14 | Tolstoy 's evidence for this massacre having taken place comes from three alleged eyewitnesses whom he quotes at length , and whom he interviewed while writing his book 40 years later . |
| 15 | For the rest of Russell 's life there was a constant tug of war between the very real religious sentiments which he expresses in passages like those and his sceptical attitude towards established religions . |
| 16 | So again you see that he feels threatened and er does n't trust Nick because of erm these ideas which he associates with Nick . |
| 17 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 18 | The doctor also discovered Stephen Wiltshire , famous for his intricately detailed drawings of buildings which he produces within minutes . |
| 19 | Griffin kills one of his rejects who he suspects of sending him death threats but such is his oily smoothness that he not only conceals his guilt from lady cop Whoopi Goldberg , but also has the wherewithal to outmaneouvre a pretender to his throne . |
| 20 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 21 | The inhabitants of the outside world exist for the social actor not as persons whom he knows on an individualised basis , but as social types ( like mechanics or planners ) , or indistinguishable collectivities of persons ( like bureaucrats , Tories or Dinka ) The rules and conditions coming from the outside which in some way affect him are simply taken as given . |
| 22 | Certainly there are references in his works to his " wandering like Cain " and also to disagreements with monks whom he criticises for their worldliness and describes as jealous of his own popularity and envious of his mystical experience . |
| 23 | The feelings which he experiences on finding her are described vividly by Bradbury . |
| 24 | Dwelly in fact lists many of the plant names in Cameron , on occasion presenting corrected forms of them , but also draws on other sources which he cites at the front of his dictionary . |
| 25 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 26 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 27 | We shall consider the two studies which he reports in most detail , and which were most systematically carried out : a sentence completion study ( Piaget , 1928 ) , and a series of studies in which an adult interviewed children about causal phenomena ( Piaget , 1929 , 1930 ) . |
| 28 | … the grains of dust which the Australian detaches from the sacred rock are so many sacred principles which he scatters into space , so that they may go to animate the totemic species and assure its renewal . |
| 29 | You see , my uncle has certain fixed views , certain principles which he adheres to rigidly . |
| 30 | These are the bureaucrats whom he contrasts with those of other states in a way which is highly pertinent to Lenin 's formulation of the problem : ‘ Bureaucrats in a non-communist state have political masters , usually elected , or owners over them , while communists have neither masters nor owners over them ’ ( Djilas 1957 , pp. 43–4 ) . |