Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 2 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 3 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 4 | May we take it from what he has said that he is saying definitely that he would be prepared at Maastricht to make an irrevocable commitment to a single currency ? |
| 5 | Yes , er I 'm very worried about this aspect of er whose finger er on the nuclear trigger , because the nuclear referee in the Soviet Union is divided between mainly peace states , Russia , Ukraine and , now Boris Yeltsin has said that he is going to protect his Russian minorities in Ukraine and , now I fear that if that comes to some kind of a conflict then it 'll be very uncertain as to what arrangement could be made about er , honouring international agreement and about ultimately too er , any kind of nuclear er congregation . |
| 6 | We are then told that he is sitting outside the church built to the dedication of Saint Francis ‘ Brother of the poor ’ . |
| 7 | JIM HICKEY has announced that he is to leave his post as director of Filmhouse in Edinburgh to pursue a career in film-making . |
| 8 | Mr Bryan Gould , the party 's environment spokesman , has already announced that he is standing for both the leadership and deputy leadership . |
| 9 | And by the time this magazine goes to press Mr Lang is expected to have announced that he is rejecting the Countryside Commission for Scotland 's detailed proposals for four Scottish national parks in Glen Coe and Ben Nevis , Loch Lomond , the Cairngorms and Wester Ross . |
| 10 | STOP PRESS Eric has today announced that he is joining Icelandic Second Division side Fram Reykjavik . |
| 11 | ‘ When a home country umpire makes a mistake then , unavoidably , an impression is created that he is giving an advantage to the home team . |
| 12 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |