Example sentences of "he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 2 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 3 | Although he is suffering from a type of septicaemia , he is clearly having a good spell . |
| 4 | Although he is suffering from a type of septicaemia , he is clearly having a good spell . |
| 5 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 6 | Although many of these detainees were released in 1989 , including Mulugetta 's wife and son , he is one of 50 still held . |
| 7 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 8 | He is one of a group of seven young Muslim activists in Brebes , Central Java , convicted on charges arising from their involvement in Muslim groups known as usroh , aiming to deepen awareness of Islamic teachings . |
| 9 | He is Malawi 's only neuro-surgeon . |
| 10 | Ask that he is released immediately . |
| 11 | Mohamed Abbad : a 37-year-old student and ex-president of the Union Nationale des Etudiants Marocains ( UNEM ) , National Union of Moroccan Students , he is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Safi Prison . |
| 12 | He is now held in hospital in Safi . |
| 13 | Fr Jin has apparently refused — he is in good health despite his age — and is not prepared to admit to any criminal activity to secure his release . |
| 14 | He is currently held at the No. 3 provincial prison at Yuxian in Henan . |
| 15 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez : a 33-year-old cigar factory technician , he is serving a three-year sentence for advocating free elections . |
| 16 | Nijazi Beqa : an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo , aged 29 , he is serving a four-year prison sentence in Dubrav prison near Istok . |
| 17 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 18 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 19 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 20 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 21 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 22 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 23 | Denis Diderot gained lasting fame as the energetic editor of the French Encyclopaedia , but he is also rightly celebrated as an art critic . |
| 24 | The old man is sitting under a tree , and a young girl is near him ; I think he is blind — at least , he ought to be . |
| 25 | He is the designer and subtle manipulator of modernism , which is the single most important and influential theory of modern art . ’ |
| 26 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 27 | He is Toru Torada , and the picture , Blue , by Kumai Sugai . |
| 28 | He is of Hindu stock , grew up amid the elaborate racial estrangements of Trinidad , and now lives in England . |
| 29 | He is a writer of rare gifts , and among his gifts is a capacity to wound . |
| 30 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |