Example sentences of "[noun sg] he is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 2 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
| 3 | The fabric he is shifting will be taken to one of the many ateliers in Paris to be cut up and sewn into ready-to-wear , middle-market fashion . |
| 4 | He is developing the character of Christ in our lives and as a result he is holding us responsible for our behaviour . |
| 5 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 6 | WHO IS ‘ Ian Cheek ’ and what 's all this crap he is writing about All ( Sounds October 27 ) ? |
| 7 | WHO IS ‘ Ian Cheek ’ and what 's all this crap he is writing about All ( Sounds October 27 ) ? |
| 8 | And now , writing the same novel all his life , Dostoevsky finds himself doomed to confront suicide as deed , perhaps life 's one deed and therefore the podvig he is seeking . |
| 9 | add information to the report description to describe the action he is taking to resolve the problem . |
| 10 | But George and Arsenal can impress upon Wright the harm he is doing his own career . |
| 11 | In essence he is arguing that strain in certain types of underground rock can generate an electric signal , which in turn can ionise a column of air above the rock . |
| 12 | The condition he is suffering from , peptic ulceration , is associated with poor eating habits , particularly irregular meals . |
| 13 | The salesperson is less likely to forget important consumer benefits associated with each product within the range he is selling . |
| 14 | If a coach believes that the black sportsman he is helping to prepare is naturally endowed with the physical equipment to produce fast sprints or hard jabs , or mazy runs through defences , it will affect his judgment as to the areas of speciality into which he should channel the efforts of that sportsman . |
| 15 | It is a new tactic he is making his own . |
| 16 | now possible to deprive many a patient of a fulfilment of the wish to have a death of one 's own , the scene Dr. Rynearson ( whose work he is discussing ) describes is one of patients with an ‘ untreatable ’ disease being kept alive indefinitely by means of tubes inserted into their stomachs , or into their veins , or into their bladders , or into their rectums — and the whole sad scene thus created encompassed within a cocoon of oxygen which is the next thing to a shroud . |
| 17 | Stores controller in the purchasing department at Barlaston , Dave Lewis , is overseeing the data transfer which ties in with work he is undertaking as part of a three-year course at Staffordshire University . |
| 18 | However , since some information about his project seems to have leaked out , Dr. Briant has kindly consented to give some of his valuable time to an explanation of the work he is doing . ’ |
| 19 | In one letter to Virginia Woolf , he described the plight of an author anxious and dissatisfied with the work he is doing , and aware of the fact that he may never be able to write anything again . |
| 20 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 21 | The first essential is to see that she has a good solicitor to advise her and sort out her husband 's affairs , making sure beforehand what his fee will be for the work he is going to do for her . |
| 22 | So the universe he is trying to build is one which offers its inhabitants the possibility of moral action ; one which challenges its inhabitants to transcend it . |
| 23 | When such a plan has been lodged it will only be necessary for a buyer to search against the plot he is buying on the appropriate form for a search of part ( Form 94B ) , indicating thereon the plot or flat number " as shown on the estate development plan lodged in the Registry on the " — no plan being then necessary as would be the case if no estate plan had been lodged . |
| 24 | The dangerous alternative to the psychiatric help he is offering is Despair . |
| 25 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 26 | It is also important that the teacher is quite familiar with the electronic equipment he is using in order to get the best results from his efforts . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further assistance he is providing to help political and economic reform in Russia . |
| 28 | On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations . |
| 29 | For I have no doubt of the welcome he is preparing for Hector when they meet . |
| 30 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |