Example sentences of "he is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Jose-Maria Mendiluce , says he is revolted to hear those words from Mr Boban . |
| 2 | In the Histories , however , he is sly , drunken and spineless , even lifting a sentence of excommunication on a man suspected of matricide . |
| 3 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 4 | He is shocked at what has happened to his son although he added that Darlington town centre has a reputation for violence . |
| 5 | When Pip finds out that Estella is to marry Drummle he is shocked but at this moment he is more devoted to Magwitch who will be hanged if he is caught . |
| 6 | The FBI prosecutes a cocaine-using mayor and is accused of racism because he is black . |
| 7 | He is white or , if he is black , a recent convert to the missionary Church and a martyr . |
| 8 | No one knows whether he is black , white or in-between . |
| 9 | No one behaves badly because he is black or white . |
| 10 | He is black , dark , tall and muscular and , Keith has noticed , beautiful . |
| 11 | This shows more inhumanity because he is willing to send another man to his death for no other reason that he is black and that he does not like him . |
| 12 | He is black and aged 25-30 . |
| 13 | He is black and aged 1920 , 5ft tall and stocky build . |
| 14 | A VAN driver alleged racial discrimination yesterday — because he is Irish . |
| 15 | Of course you must also remember he is Irish … do they have media bias over there too ; - ) ) |
| 16 | He is Irish . |
| 17 | He is quirky and difficult ; she loving and understanding . |
| 18 | He is unbeatable . |
| 19 | He is content to believe this , the implication being that he is invulnerable except to anyone who is alive , who has been born . |
| 20 | • Renault chief Raymond Levy says he is hesitant to conclude the present Renault-Mitsubishi-Volvo talks before the post-1992 level of Japanese imports to Europe is decided . |
| 21 | As a TV-am After Nine contributor , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 22 | He is used to ruling autocratically , as are his advisers . |
| 23 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 24 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 25 | He likes it , and he is used to grooming sessions . |
| 26 | Perhaps he is used to eating the grass sometimes while we brush him . |
| 27 | A duvet is more practical than sheets , blankets and eiderdown , although the patient may prefer them if they are what he is used to . |
| 28 | As co-presenter of BBC1 's Wildbunch and director of the Animal Information Bureau , he is used to answering all types of questions . |
| 29 | But once he is used to it , he will trust his right , which he did often enough against Coventry . ’ |
| 30 | As the author of two volumes of poetry in addition to The Golden Gate ) , he is used to skimming off excess verbiage . |