Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [conj] he [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because he is not legally entitled to recover the cost incurred by carrying out the repairs necessary to remedy the defect that the surveyor failed to spot . |
| 2 | It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away . |
| 3 | What is important is that he is grinning as he says this , denoting playfulness , and Catherine is distressed by the idea . |
| 4 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 5 | But that is because he is a physical scientist , who takes for granted the biologists " theory of evolution . |
| 6 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 7 | I 've told you that 's because he 's erm leggings or whatever they call them th they wear but the |
| 8 | Yeah that 's because he 's with the other boy . |
| 9 | They used to write back and they said he was always being sent out and I said that 's because he 's bored ! |
| 10 | That 's if he 's back . |
| 11 | That 's if he 's still alive . |
| 12 | That 's if he 's willing to go up to twenty . |
| 13 | And he 'll only start the job if he can afford it , that 's if he 's a wise man . |
| 14 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |