Example sentences of "which he [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 For Schiller , Greek tragedy poses a problem which he approaches from the point of view of Kantian ethics .
32 And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place .
33 He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth .
34 Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state .
35 Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book .
36 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 .
37 He does not , however , explain why the causal influence of the forces of production is always , and necessarily , greater than that of individuals , and only takes up this point in a second argument , in which he shifts from the discussion of character traits to consider the role played by individuals of extraordinary talent .
38 Nevertheless , assuming that all users are eventually registered , the data subject should be able to feel that he knows or can find out more than he knew hitherto about the extent to which he figures in the data banks .
39 Before him lies a dark , trackless , formless , chaotic field , which he probes with the antennae of his techniques and ideas , seeking by his action to transform it into pure presence .
40 At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) .
41 Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds .
42 More common is the seller who , having inserted an exclusion clause into his conditions of sale , relies on his buyer not bothering to read ( or not understanding ) the small print ; for example , the exclusion clause may be contained in the small print of a guarantee which he gives to the buyer .
43 Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 .
44 Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) .
45 It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty .
46 The minister says he feels humiliated by the lynchings , which he attributes to the ‘ absence of government ’ in many areas .
47 This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ .
48 our next champ is Simon Wigg from Buckinghamshire … he 's won the world long track title for the fourth time … with a new look … the bike has been aerodynamically designed by grand prix men … and the suit which he wears over the leathers is made of lycra …
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