Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] he [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 2 | I thought , ‘ He is peculiar , he 's forgotten that he 's paying me £30 a year to obey his orders , ’ and I said , ‘ Not many masters bother to ask if their servants are offended by their orders . ’ |
| 3 | I should have added that he is an absurd , self-important figure with as much charm and sophistication as your average lavatory brush . |
| 4 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 5 | The plaintiff 's feelings may be wounded if he is subjected to aggressive cross-examination , especially if it is designed to support what transpires to be an unsuccessful plea of justification , so this forensic factor may be brought into account . |
| 6 | All charges against him have been dropped and he 's being allowed to leave the country . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now that ability has been harnessed and he 's an England player , it would be a great shame if he was undermined by jealousy or people trying to make an issue out of triviality . |
| 9 | The Scottish international has been dropped because he 's not in the right frame of mind . |
| 10 | Things do n't always work out as well as that : ‘ Dear Sir , ’ wrote a client to a Thomas Cook branch manager in 1965 , ‘ Will you please cancel travel arrangements made by Mr — for October 3rd as the wedding has been cancelled because he is already married . ’ |
| 11 | Observers have commented that he is less tolerant and sympathetic when dealing with them than with other colleagues or outsiders . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 13 | Mr Barre 's writ is so limited that he is disparagingly known as the mayor of Mogadishu . |
| 14 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 15 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 16 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 17 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 18 | But , having said that he 's not the most reliable person in the world . |
| 19 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 20 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 21 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 22 | May we take it from what he has said that he is saying definitely that he would be prepared at Maastricht to make an irrevocable commitment to a single currency ? |
| 23 | Although he has said that he is not in favour of that , he would nevertheless still keep them if that was NATO 's decision . |
| 24 | The Minister of Agriculture has said that he is not going to have land set-aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more' . |
| 25 | He has said that he is in agreement , but with some reservations , about the keeping of custody records and access to a solicitor of the applicant 's choice . |
| 26 | Yes , er I 'm very worried about this aspect of er whose finger er on the nuclear trigger , because the nuclear referee in the Soviet Union is divided between mainly peace states , Russia , Ukraine and , now Boris Yeltsin has said that he is going to protect his Russian minorities in Ukraine and , now I fear that if that comes to some kind of a conflict then it 'll be very uncertain as to what arrangement could be made about er , honouring international agreement and about ultimately too er , any kind of nuclear er congregation . |
| 27 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 28 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 29 | The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up . |
| 30 | Well there 's the fact that he might have borrowed the money for a ten million pound project , and he ca n't have a use of it because it 's named and he 's paying interest |