Example sentences of "[conj] he is [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am delighted that he sees the benefits of competitive tendering and that he is anxious to ensure that further education colleges should get the best value for money . |
| 2 | Our first impressions of Piggy are that he is anxious to please and is a ‘ wet-blankety ’ adult , Ralph on the other hand is an attractive popular person whom Piggy idolises . |
| 3 | He tells sister that he is relieved to know that his illness is treatable but is not sure how to change his lifestyle . |
| 4 | This being believes that he is able to look and measure in all directions , whereas his observations are really limited to directions contained in the two-dimensional surface . |
| 5 | However that may be , it is essential that he should be served promptly so that he is able to consider whether he should exercise his right of appeal . |
| 6 | A buyer might say that he is willing to buy if the seller drops his price by £100 . |
| 7 | If a male , for example , is constantly harassing his mate , keeping her in her cave or in a corner of the tank , often with serious damage being inflicted , this shows that he is ready to breed but she is not . |
| 8 | Editor , — John R Hampton may be right to lament the decline in doctors ' abilities to elicit and interpret physical signs , but I believe that he is wrong to conclude that training in the setting of general practice will sound the deathknell of these skills . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 10 | But he can bridge it only if he has broad lines of policy clear in his head ; if , knowing his own mind , he drives his authority down through the departments ; and if he is prepared to understand that the fruits of his efforts may appear long after the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton , gourmand and ground-breaker . |
| 11 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 12 | His methods of computation may be ridiculous , but he is right to think that they do not love him , and his sense of bitter ingratitude causes his madness . |
| 13 | Alt is wisely tentative in his conclusions given the nature of the available data but he is prepared to argue that there is " no evidence that any British Government in the period [ since 1964 ] … believed it could " steal " an election by mortgaging the future in the interest of an economically better present " . |
| 14 | But he is unlikely to attend because he 's too busy . |
| 15 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 16 | But he is careful to stress that none of the ‘ evidence ’ produced during hypnosis can be taken at face value . |
| 17 | But he is wrong to say that it is a gloss — especially as a rabbinic scholium ! — on the Sabbath service only , and to hang ( as he does ) all his review from it . |
| 18 | The question is whether he is wrong to argue that the capacity for language does not carry any benefit to the individual and , therefore , was not subject to further evolution . |
| 19 | At a press conference yesterday , he was asked whether he is willing to negotiate or accept a compromise on the House measure . |
| 20 | Yeltsin , as he is inclined to do when backed into a corner , has taken a high-risk gamble . |
| 21 | A man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money , but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose . |