Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] he is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report consists of seven pages , the first six , described as the inspection report , signed at the foot of page six by the surveyor with an indication whether or not he is employed . |
| 2 | Whether or not he is convicted , most Venezuelans already consider him guilty . |
| 3 | That will comprise a potentially exempt transfer regardless of where the life tenant resides or where his ordinary place of residence is or where he is domiciled . |
| 4 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 5 | Suspicion may rest on him : and so he is suspended until he is cleared of it . |
| 6 | His employers consider homosexuality a ‘ security threat ’ , and so he is interviewed here under a pseudonym . |
| 7 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 8 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 9 | There is a highly respected politician who has done honourable service in that most sobering of posts , the Northern Ireland Office , and now he is expected to play Father Christmas , with a lovely sack of surprise goodies to dispense to good children . |
| 10 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |
| 11 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 12 | So Henry 's belief 2 is true , and surely he is justified in believing 2 . |
| 13 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 14 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 15 | And therefore he is forbidden to you by every rule , natural or manmade . |
| 16 | He just about gets away with it as a teenager in long shot and make-up , but mostly he is heard ( putting on a ‘ young ’ voice ) and not seen . |
| 17 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 18 | If he makes any mistake no harsh remark is made , but quietly he is asked to go through again and point out such-and-such a sheep or goat which has been purposely hidden . |