Example sentences of "[conj] he [is] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 2 | It appears to me , therefore , that he is estopped from saying that there was any valid consideration for the defendant 's promise . |
| 3 | From the outset , Cohn makes it very clear that he is bent on taking a walk on the wild side , to chronicle the lives of the losers he meets along this small strip of the Great American Nowhere . |
| 4 | As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view . |
| 5 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 6 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |
| 7 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 8 | Kerry asks Frankie if he 's thought of retiring . |
| 9 | No Botham and no Larkins , but Dean Jones sat champing at the bit and it will be a great pity if he is prevented from emptying the nearby chemistry laboratories with the prospect of his thrilling strokeplay . |
| 10 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 11 | If he is reported for striking with the boot then he 's liable for a three month ban . |
| 12 | The reductionism is produced by his anxiety to be treated as a serious scientist , but he is mistaken in thinking that only biologically observable or biochemically measurable concepts and propositions count as science in the study of human action . |
| 13 | His name may not be familiar , but he 's known for playing cruel , heartless men . |
| 14 | This is how he was described by one of his courtiers , Walter Map : " Whatever way he goes out he is seized upon by the crowds and pulled hither and thither , pushed whither he would not and yet , surprising to say , he listens to each man with patience , and though assaulted by all with shouts and pullings and rough pushings , does not threaten anyone because of it , nor show any sign of anger ; only , when he is hustled beyond bearing , he silently retreats to some place of quiet . " |
| 15 | I said I doubt QPR would accept that much … but she said that Gerry Francis ( that ex Suffragette/Black/Leeds player ; - ) ) is looking for replacements as he is resigned to losing Bardsley … not necessarily to Leeds Id imagine . |
| 16 | Because of a loophole in the law — even though he 's banned from keeping animals — the Colin French still own them provided someone else , a stokeholder for example , takes custody . |