Example sentences of "which he is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet despite the iconic status of Van Gogh 's ‘ tragic ’ life , it is the appearance of his work by which he is ultimately signified , his thick impasto brush-stroke , his vibrant yellows , the urgency of his creative drive . |
| 2 | During his death he takes a series of trips in different vehicles : the airplane-like ‘ vehicle of communication ’ , a boat , a car , a horse-drawn buggy and finally the cranial spaceship from which he is ultimately ejected back into life . |
| 3 | A statute is , after all , the formal and complete intimation to the citizen of a particular rule of the law which he is enjoined , sometimes under penalty , to obey and by which he is both expected and entitled to regulate his conduct . |
| 4 | According to members of the reforming faction , some officers have attempted to use Sir Peter Imbert 's apparent discomfiture over his role in the Guildford Four case to discredit the Plus Programme , with which he is closely identified . |
| 5 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do by reason of a duty imposed upon him by law , whether by a Statute or otherwise : for instance , the duty of a local police authority to afford adequate protection to A and his property ; |
| 6 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with A ; |
| 7 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with C. |
| 8 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 9 | Martin had happily seen U21 rugby fully established as third in line in the English rugby hierarchy , and he thoroughly deserved the presentation made to him during the Trent College week by the panel to mark the esteem in which he is universally held . |
| 10 | Lord Burlington was an outstanding and resplendent figure , not only was he a Knight of the Garter , but also Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guards and Governor of Greenwich Hospital , and he made a serious contribution to that age , although it is his contribution to the arts and architecture for which he is most remembered . |
| 11 | Appointed as vicar of St Paul 's , Worcester , in 1914 , a year later he became a chaplain to the armed forces and began the wartime ministry among the troops in France and Flanders for which he is most remembered . |
| 12 | By then he had also begun to produce the works for which he is principally remembered , pen or lithographic facsimile reproductions of early printing and wood engraving , generally intended to remedy defects in existing copies of books . |
| 13 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 14 | But the position from which he is today assessed rests on precarious , even quaint , over-simplifications . |
| 15 | Anything the former Open and US Open champion achieves on the US circuit will surely reflect on the European Tour which he is also pledged to support and which continues to flourish . |
| 16 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 17 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 18 | Linguistically , thereby , the merchant weaves a number of strands into the net in which he is eventually caught , innocent and unknowing to the last . |
| 19 | On the eve of his sentencing , Mr Nathan spoke to The Independent in the Tel Aviv office of the institution for which he is best known , his popular offshore radio station . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 21 | There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell . |
| 22 | Mark di Suvero , over the years , has often worked in bronze — but it is his steelworks for which he is best known . |
| 23 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 24 | This is how , in his partly autobiographical World of Surfing , he described the wave for which he is still remembered : |
| 25 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |
| 26 | Began teaching in Ceramics Department , Royal College of Art , London , to which he is still attached . |
| 27 | Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered . |
| 28 | In the year July 1797 to June 1798 Coleridge produced most of the verse for which he is now remembered , including Kubla Khan , Christabel , and The Ancient Mariner — for which Wordsworth suggested the albatross and the theme of the guilty wanderer which had so often appeared in his own recent work . |
| 29 | The result , tracking Ackerley through the Great War , Cambridge , his years as Literary Editor of The Listener and the relationship with the Alsatian dog for which he is popularly remembered , provides a continual feeling of deja vu . |
| 30 | Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 . |