Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] he [is] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 2 | Dramatic irony allows the reader to know that he is in fact the son of the ‘ Lost Prince ’ , and a lost prince himself , rather than , as he supposes , one of many Samavians of high birth long in exile . |
| 3 | Cartoonists may portray the international businessman flitting from five-star hotel to five-star hotel , and waking up to wonder if he is in New York or Tokyo . |
| 4 | While , on the face of it , his case might rest on its being detrimental to his career to suggest that he is at death 's door , it seems likely that much of the evidence , especially for the defence , will be called to no other purpose than to establish whether , to put it mor euphemistically than it will be put in court , he has been putting himself about . |
| 5 | The defendant only needs to assert that he is in possession and the plaintiff must then show that his title is better than the defendant 's . |
| 6 | Hoddle 's refusal to deny that he 's about leave has only heightened the suspicion that he is . |
| 7 | Well I was just going to say that he 's in advertising . |
| 8 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |