Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 2 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 3 | Techniques " at the bell " are four ( 1 ) living with the headlines and main outlines of your subject by the use of swot cards ; ( 2 ) rehearsing old papers ( or papers concocted from textbook examples ) under examination conditions , with the deliberate aim of making these conditions so familiar that you will be at ease — with the " this-is-old-hat-to-me " feeling in the examination room ; ( 3 ) listening with a much more critical ear to your tutor and to the lecturer — especially if he is also the examiner ; |
| 4 | Thus , although section 49 states that the seller can sue for the price in certain circumstances ( see Chapter 12 ) , he will nevertheless not be able to do so unless he is also ready and willing to deliver the goods . |
| 5 | If certain aspects of Vincent 's personality repel us , it is perhaps because he is never full face . |
| 6 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 8 | The views of North Wales MEP Joe Wilson are of interest , if only because he is so adamantly in favour of the treaty . |
| 9 | After an introduction by the presenter , who usually speculates on the issues likely to be raised with the Prime Minister that day ( a tiresome waste of time , especially as he is frequently wrong ) , the programme goes live , with only minimum commentary , till about 3.48 pm when the presenter returns to summarize the exchanges ( another waste of time ) . |
| 10 | The thing about this man is that the whole wind section seems to play better when he is there , not just the flutes . |
| 11 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 12 | The former perhaps will repeat a pleasure until exhausted , the latter lose interest as soon as he is fully aware of its nuances , as though suspicious of the tendency of pleasures , like pains , to contract awareness to themselves . |
| 13 | He has upset many influential Democrats , partly because he has blundered into their territory , partly because he is congenitally blind to status distinctions , judging everyone from the loftiest senator to the lowliest staffer on the basis of the quality of their arguments . |
| 14 | Gradually his attitude changes , partly for the almost absurdly simple reason that the weather changes from uncomfortable cold to pleasant warmth and partly because he is too intelligent to be totally unaware that he is learning , whether he wants to or not . |
| 15 | Presumably because he is less important . ’ |
| 16 | The Panel regards each director of the offeror and the offeree company as having responsibility under the City Code to ensure , so far as he is reasonably able , that the City Code is complied with in the conduct of an offer . |
| 17 | Then even if he is here you wo n't see him because you wo n't need to see him , if you see what I mean . |
| 18 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 19 | Even if he is also religious — as he often enough still is — his religion is most commonly seen as a private , individual affair , divorced to a greater or lesser degree from the everyday concerns of the public world . |
| 20 | In these anti-avoidance provisions , the relevant test for a " UK customer " is that he is normally resident in the UK and they can therefore apply even if he is physically outside the UK at the relevant time ( eg at the non-UK office concerned ) . |
| 21 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 22 | You just ca n't keep a good man down even if he is only five foot seven . |
| 23 | A man can not be an island here if he is ever to turn his back on this place . ’ |
| 24 | Advertising and its related arts are thus necessary to ‘ develop the kind of man the goals of the industrial system require — one that reliably spends his income and works reliably because he is always in need of more ’ . |
| 25 | With the CCTV and radio paging systems being interfaced , the night porter can be warned of an alarm situation even while he is away from his desk . |
| 26 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 27 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 28 | The second problem is that , even when he is directly involved , Butman never gets under the skin of either characters or company . |
| 29 | Tom supplements their pension by working part-time , even though he is nearly 70 . |
| 30 | ‘ And shows it always , ’ Wilson replied , ‘ even though he is no longer a child . ’ |