Example sentences of "he is [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 2 | He is determined to make good and they are determined to help him . |
| 3 | He is determined to find better ways to recruit and develop talented women . |
| 4 | He is determined to get authoritative results , and demands that his associates be similarly single-minded . |
| 5 | But with prize-money soaring to £500,000 a race , he is poised to become American motor sport 's biggest earner . |
| 6 | Tying them by the leg with a string about 4 or 5 feet long fastened to the ground , and , when he is made to stand fair , a great ignorant merciless fellow at a distance agreed upon and at two pence three throws , flings a ‘ scail ’ at him till he is quite dead . |
| 7 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 8 | Thus one can say the sentence in ( 34 ) even if the person referred to never gets to handle the case : ( 34 ) He is qualified to handle this case . |
| 9 | When he plays Mowgli , Karim 's skin is deemed too pallid and he is forced to wear black-and-white minstrel greasepaint ; cast as a downtrodden immigrant in his next part , he caricatures Changez , his fat , idle and ugly cousin-in-law , who arrives from India halfway through the novel . |
| 10 | The England manager watched film of the Arsenal striker 's clash with Tottenham 's David Howells that led to a Football Association charge of misconduct and said : ‘ If he is forced to miss some games because of this then it will give him a problem in terms of our next match . |
| 11 | Unfortunately classical Greece as a whole does not live up to these ideals either , and he is forced to recognise certain periods and sectors of that society as having ‘ restricted ’ literacy . |
| 12 | He is forced to interpret this description very literally . |
| 13 | He is required to make such provision ( either by insurance or some other means ) as the Minister may , with the consent of the Treasury , approve for sufficient funds to be available , generally up to a total of £20m. to cover compensation during this period . |
| 14 | The system of advancement through the grades was ( and is ) tightly controlled , and was ( and is ) done strictly on the basis of seniority , and a driver is penalised if he breaks the chain : if his name is top of the list for promotion to a certain level , he is allowed to refuse such promotion twice ( Murdoch 1986 : 44 ; 30 ) . |
| 15 | Psychogenic reactions on food testing ( see p 148 ) can occur just as easily in children as in adults , and if knows he is expected to go wild when he tries milk he may well oblige . |
| 16 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 17 | They divorced after 20 years of marriage and he is expected to marry 37-year-old heiress Charlotte Morrison , Britain 's second richest woman . |
| 18 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 19 | Instead , he is expected to surrender one-third of the Championship and opt for some easy money . |