Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 2 | The exporter does not expect to get paid for his goods for 12 months so he is given a credit note — a standby letter — from the importer 's bank . |
| 3 | And I think this inward investment that Professor Lock is referring to and the scale of investment that he is referring to must be considered as additional and and would draw in additional jobs . |
| 4 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 5 | It deconstructs the language of communication , representation , or expression ( when the individual or collective subject may have the illusion that he is imitating something or expressing himself ) and reconstructs another language , voluminous , having neither bottom nor surface … |
| 6 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 7 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 8 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 9 | Listening is much more than hearing ; it is an active process whereby the listener attends exclusively to the speaker , not only to the words that he is speaking . |
| 10 | Tell him often Ellen that he is to go to Italy soon where his mother and father who love him greatly await him . |
| 11 | Howard also finds with pleasure that he is beginning to speak a language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office , even to Phil — schuppen structure , Pennine ‘ windows ’ , and Dinaride outliers . |
| 12 | My right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has recently made statements , and was on the radio this morning , about the review that he is conducting of how court procedures can be improved . |
| 13 | Finally , if the surveyor can show the contractor that he is processing the claim and will.make his decision within a reasonable time , it should be possible to maintain a good relationship with him . |
| 14 | Last night , a 55-year-old local man was charged with murder and he is expected to appear before Dyffryn Clwyd magistrates at Denbigh later today . |
| 15 | ‘ We knew he was one of the best finishers at the club and he is proving it , ’ said Barrow . |
| 16 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |
| 17 | TACKLING your opponent very hard and then lifting him up with your hands under his armpits and pulling his hairs until he is screaming blue murder — and you say to the referee ‘ Well , I 'm only trying to help him ! ’ |
| 18 | On 19 October 1550 he was granted letters of denization and he is listed thereafter in various City parishes , the last being St Bride 's in the ward of Faringdon Without , where he was described in 1571 as ‘ Haunce , pictorer , a denizen , borne in Anwarpe , came into the realm about xxviii yeres past , Douch ’ . |
| 19 | Under a hire-purchase agreement the hirer undertakes to hire the goods for a specified period at a specified rent and he is given an option to buy the goods when he has paid all the specified rent . |
| 20 | He is playing some long-lost avant garde tape and he is scowling at his sandwich . |
| 21 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | However , he will have to take much more radical steps if he is to acquire truly ‘ green ’ credentials . |
| 23 | The answers seem to be that : ( 1 ) an arbitrator may be obliged to follow the litigation practice if he is to avoid an allegation of misconduct , unless the arbitration rules concerned specifically preclude those procedures or the parties both agree they need not be followed ; and that ( 2 ) the position of an expert will depend first on whether the parties have any specific requirements . |
| 24 | Wilkinson was in poor spirits after losing both his matches in the recent Davis Cup match with Hungary in Budapest , on clay , but the grass court season has given him renewed zest and he is playing the best tennis of his career . |
| 25 | And it will do his own prospects no harm if he is seen attempting to make up for his failure to sign Alan Shearer in the summer . |
| 26 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 27 | Howard Baker ( that is his name ) is sitting in front of a green light waiting for a green light because he is thinking . |
| 28 | If your opponent interrupts you , resume your seat while he is speaking . |
| 29 | A requirement imposed by regulations shall not apply to any follower of the Sikh religion while he is wearing a turban . |
| 30 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |