Example sentences of "he [is] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet if a supervisor is too vigilant , he is lambasted for sheltering banks from the discipline of the market or the effects of their own blunders . |
| 32 | This means he is banned from attending any form of racing in Britain , including point-to-points . |
| 33 | I AM surprised to see that the England Colts selectors have included A. Jackson in the squad of 25 and also on training weekends , while at the present he is banned from playing for stamping . |
| 34 | He is accused of plotting to have his fellow ANC leaders assassinated . |
| 35 | He is accused of stealing £22,191 between 12 October 1988 and 22 October 1992 ; £21,000 between 11 September 1989 and 22 October 1992 ; £20,003 between 26 January 1991 and 22 October 1992 ; and £69,000 between 2 May 1991 and 22 October 1992 . |
| 36 | He is accused of conspiring with Mohammed Haque , a BCCI manager , to mislead the bank 's auditor Price Waterhouse in 1984–85 with documents alleging that companies connected to him owed the bank £2.2m . |
| 37 | He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country 's paramilitary forces on torture techniques . |
| 38 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 39 | He is accused of possessing 10 milligrammes of amphetamine sulphate , known as speed . |
| 40 | He is accused of making a false statement prior to entering the US , which carries a sentence of up to five years in jail . |
| 41 | He is accused of wounding David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , Liverpool , who was playing for the Oxton-based Queens Arms team . |
| 42 | Now , I am afraid — if rumour is correct — he is reduced to confiding to any journalist who will listen that he was a dissident from day one , bound unwillingly into the whole scheme by a love of collective responsibility . |
| 43 | He is reduced to wooing her with honeyed words on behalf of his handsome but tongue-tied young friend . |
| 44 | Conversely , those whom he is supposed to desire , and always in specified ways , namely women , he is discouraged from identifying with : that would equal effeminacy ; so in relation to them desire for precludes identification with . |
| 45 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |
| 46 | He is blamed for ordering the army crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 . |
| 47 | If the player tampers with those , he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation . |
| 48 | If he is reported for striking with the boot then he 's liable for a three month ban . |
| 49 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |
| 50 | This helps the patient to control his trunk movements symmetrically : he is guided into extending his trunk , stretching upwards , as he goes forwards , and then flexing ( bending ) the trunk as he comes backwards . |
| 51 | The following year , in 1780 , ‘ he is returned from finishing the survey of the County of Lancaster for Wm . |
| 52 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 53 | I said I doubt QPR would accept that much … but she said that Gerry Francis ( that ex Suffragette/Black/Leeds player ; - ) ) is looking for replacements as he is resigned to losing Bardsley … not necessarily to Leeds Id imagine . |
| 54 | He is resigned to missing out on any serious rugby during this month , but by early October he should know what the season holds for him . |
| 55 | He is committed to developing the character of Christ in our lives , most of which is accomplished through our interaction with other people . |
| 56 | He is committed to maintaining that momentum . |
| 57 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 58 | He is committed to making sure swimmers do n't get out of their depth . |
| 59 | This is how he was described by one of his courtiers , Walter Map : " Whatever way he goes out he is seized upon by the crowds and pulled hither and thither , pushed whither he would not and yet , surprising to say , he listens to each man with patience , and though assaulted by all with shouts and pullings and rough pushings , does not threaten anyone because of it , nor show any sign of anger ; only , when he is hustled beyond bearing , he silently retreats to some place of quiet . " |
| 60 | As lieutenant-governor , he is remembered for fleeing down the statehouse fire escape to avoid senators ' anger over his choice of committee assignments . |