Example sentences of "[that] he is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that he is second to none as a theoretician , but coaching requires much more than that . |
| 2 | He acknowledges that he is pleased with his overall performance to date , but is realistic when making assessments . |
| 3 | A poor conference speaker will give the Profitboss a giant ego-boost , maintaining lit belief that he is equal to , if not better than , most of the top professionals in his area . |
| 4 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 5 | In fact , it is a measure of his poverty both that he is unaware of it and that he can define himself only in negative terms . |
| 6 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 7 | Although Dionysius stresses the utter inadequacy of any created being to know the nature of the one God who created everything from nothing , he also asserts that He is immanent in His creation and that man can encounter the reality of the energy of divine love at the heart of his being . |
| 8 | There is , then , no grounds to believe that he is wilful in his disposition of his children 's affective lives [ see Landry , p. 103 ] ; indeed , his most important act is essentially to defend Terentia 's freedom . |
| 9 | From his own statements , it is clear that he is word-perfect in his familiarity with the prophetic books of the Old Testament , can quote them at will , can move among them with the facility and expertise of a professional scholar . |
| 10 | The blessed assurance that God is present in every event , that he is present in every circumstance , that he is working with us to save to heal to forgive to reconcile to restore . |
| 11 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 12 | Thus instead of following the traditional linear progression of the allegory — a development towards contemplation based on Jacob 's union with Rachel after his marriage to Leah — Hilton is more interested in emphasising the coexistence of the two wives : In his reference to another facet of the story , that concerning Jacob 's change of name to Israel , allegorised as a man seeing God , Hilton does suggest a progression in contemplation for his pupil saying that he will become Israel , that is , fully contemplative , in the next world , certainly , and possibly even in this if his circumstances change so that he is relieved of worldly responsibility altogether . |
| 13 | He might be able to make a decent cup of coffee but I hope for her sake that he is good at washing up afterwards too . |
| 14 | He did the things that he is good at very well and I was pleased with my own strengths , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Probably a bad impression as I feel that he is good at heart . |
| 16 | The Spirit of God breathes his life into man ; he revives the dry bones ; he infuses vitality into inert matter , but the evidence that he is involved in the work of creating the world is very slim indeed in the Old Testament and non-existent in the New . |
| 17 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief , Scott McNealy , told Unigram.X that he is delighted with the amount of ‘ advertising ’ and sense of energy and power the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs merger will create for Unix SVR4 . |
| 19 | In exchange for £30 cash and six large vodka and Babychams , Nobb , 73 , revealed that he is dissatisfied with the way things are going . |
| 20 | In exchange for £30 cash and six large vodka and Babychams , Nobb , 73 , revealed that he is dissatisfied with the way things are going . |
| 21 | In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ . |
| 22 | In other words , expect whispers that he is ripe for voluntary retirement in an autumn reshuffle . |
| 23 | She is obsessed with her brother in much the same autocratic and selfish way that he is obsessed with Pamela . |
| 24 | Are you really oblivious to the fact that he is one of the most overrated twats of this century ? … |
| 25 | MARCO VAN BASTEN gave further evidence that he is one of football 's most lethal strikers with a devastating performance for AC Milan . |
| 26 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 27 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 28 | The financial consultant , who started his refereeing career in the Northern League but now officiates in Conference matches and runs the line in Football League games , is hoping that he is one of the lucky half dozen who graduate . |
| 29 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 30 | The position of the stick in steady flight is a very clear indication of the angle of attack , and having the stick back near the rearmost stop should warn the pilot that he is close to the stalling angle for the wing . |