Example sentences of "[Wh det] he is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 2 | He classified his poems on Hartleian principles , e.g. Imagination , Affection , Sentiment and Reflection , and in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads he explained that one of the functions of poetry is to show how ‘ we associate ideas in a state of excitement ’ ; Wordsworth did not expect his poems to ‘ gratify certain known habits of association ’ — he will provide new associations and ‘ create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 3 | Even if the witness is willing , the law of the place in which he is to be examined may be such as to render the examination inadequate . |
| 4 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 5 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 6 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 7 | ‘ All I want is for him to be happy and secure , ’ Vitor assured her , ‘ which he is with you . |
| 8 | Then comes the expected , ‘ unless the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that his detention without being charged is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence for which he is under arrest or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 9 | Your employer would , of course , have to agree to your continuing to work , which he is under no compulsion to do . |
| 10 | What diversifiers should have done instead , reckons Mr Chandler ( a point on which he is in wholehearted agreement with folk such as Mr Peters ) , was to concentrate their resources on ‘ reinventing ’ their existing businesses . |
| 11 | This is an important recognition for the narrator , for gradually in his quest for Bazlen he too comes to accept that he is ‘ passing through ’ , and that the truth of which he is in pursuit is not an object fixed in time and space . |
| 12 | He has an interesting and persuasive voice , for which he is in ever-increasing demand outside the USA . |
| 13 | Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit . |
| 14 | They are those of a man working imaginatively within the framework of an ideological system with which he is in entire agreement . |
| 15 | Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund . |
| 16 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 17 | The rest of the speech is saying that since the whole argument must have no excuse for what he is at the moment , it must be looked at like this : that when he becomes greater , he will become very dangerous to Rome : like a serpent still in the egg , which , when hatched , will become deadly . |
| 18 | He will almost always be in the life you describe what he is as a literary concept , a private investigator , a man with all the freedom of action of the amateur detective of old ( see how the blueprint formula still has its influence ) but who uses it actively . |
| 19 | That is why I want to find out , at least as well as I can by watching him , what he is like … . |
| 20 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The game will give us a decent idea of what he is like . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not going to bother Barnesy , everyone knows what he is like . |
| 22 | ‘ They all know what he is like . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , Wordsworth 's position begins to look surprisingly consistent , if one considers what he is against ; he is prepared to use any weapon to attack liberal commercial values and the new affluent middle class . |