Example sentences of "[Wh det] he be [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 | ‘ I think it 's psychological satisfactions of that sort which he 's after and which Rosamund puts in his path . |
| 17 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 18 | His branch , in which he was at first the only officer , was called GS ( R ) . |
| 19 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 20 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 21 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 22 | He was a prolific writer of learned articles in the Veterinarian of which he was for a time co-editor , and his classical education is reflected in his thoughtful commentaries . |
| 23 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 24 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 25 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 26 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 27 | Just before this , however , he won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford , with which he was to be associated until his death . |
| 28 | General Hodge thus had the first of the many tempestuous scenes in which he was to be involved with Rhee over the next two years . |
| 29 | In 1888 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and also the Art Workers ' Guild , of which he was to be an enthusiastic and devoted member , and which provided his main circle of friends ; he was elected master of the guild for the year 1903 . |
| 30 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |