Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 2 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 3 | The advantage to the developer is that he is under no obligation to exercise the option and proceed with the purchase , whereas the landowner must sell the land to the developer if the terms of the option are met . |
| 4 | The question is whether he is the right man for the sensitive media liaison portfolio . |
| 5 | The question is whether he is wrong to argue that the capacity for language does not carry any benefit to the individual and , therefore , was not subject to further evolution . |
| 6 | The question is whether he is in addition permitted to say that , although he was aware that he was causing difficulties , he was doing so from the best of intentions . |
| 7 | The question is whether he is also entitled to threaten her and by this threat procure intercourse with her . |
| 8 | Amongst his responsibilities are the relationships between the United Nations and our government and of course for us his very , very special claim to fame is that he is the younger brother of our former chairman Simon Boyd . |
| 9 | His point is that he is in effect running the equivalent of a small assessment unit but he is not actually getting paid for running the equivalent of a small assessment unit . |
| 10 | The impression the debtor seeks to give in his affidavit evidence is that he is not well placed financially . |
| 11 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |
| 12 | If a person is clearly described as a " broker/dealer " in the context of a widespread practice of dual capacity in the market it may be difficult to show that the " substance " of the relationship is that he is an agent . |
| 13 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 14 | The main reason that Vine-Lott is not hung-up on the tradition of stockbroking is that he is not a stockbroker . |
| 15 | McClellan feels that the advantages to the librarian of this arrangement are that he is able to exercise constantly all his professional skills and avoid being bogged down by a heavy burden of administrative routine . |
| 16 | He is back home with mother Christine now but she yesterday said : ‘ The medical advice is that he is not out of the woods yet . ’ |
| 17 | It is no secret that Slobodan Milosevic [ the Serbian President ] is psychologically a self-destructive , suicidal type , but the trouble is that he is transferring his suicidal madness onto the nation as a whole . |
| 18 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 19 | Tell me why the man is as he is . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ One of the most important things to say about Welton Ambassador is that he is the result of the union of two great eventing families . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Eubank trains very hard but the real secret to his success is that he is a very clean living boy , ’ said Davies . |
| 22 | The effect of his mistake is that he is not guilty of assault . |
| 23 | Our first impressions of Piggy are that he is anxious to please and is a ‘ wet-blankety ’ adult , Ralph on the other hand is an attractive popular person whom Piggy idolises . |
| 24 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 25 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 26 | The infuriating thing is that he is always right . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the best thing is that he is reacting to noises and the sound of his name . |
| 28 | The answer is that he is almost certainly afraid of something . |
| 29 | The answer is that he is guessing . ’ |
| 30 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |