Example sentences of "he is [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he walks down the corridor , he is striving fur success . |
| 32 | But this does not mean that he is advocating head-hunting . |
| 33 | He is creating man . |
| 34 | If B replies no he is inviting A to tell him , while a response of no could be taken to mean that he does not know and is not expecting to be told . |
| 35 | The seller , if he is to receive cash or debt securities rather than shares , would want a price that reflected as fully as possible the value to the buyer of creating a monopoly ( and thus the lost chance for the seller to do it himself ) . |
| 36 | Bruno was razor sharp himself as he added : ‘ He is earning money over here and buying houses in Canada . |
| 37 | He is calling Elizabeth . |
| 38 | God is establishing a Kingdom , therefore , into which he is calling people from every country , race and class . |
| 39 | This flows from the assumptions made by the model of perfect competition that the individual entrepreneur maximizes his profits , that there is a price taker and that there is freedom of entry and exit from the industry in which he is producing goods . |
| 40 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 41 | Senator Ted Kennedy revealed yesterday that he is to wed lawyer Victoria who 's father is to stand trial over an alleged fraud . |
| 42 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 43 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 44 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 45 | At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial . |
| 46 | Careful as he is to cultivate bankers , Mr Murdoch borrows to avoid being controlled . |
| 47 | Today he is to visit Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , the site in 1863 of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War . |
| 48 | The other supposed leader , Laurent Fabius , first secretary of the Socialist Party , is also severely incapacitated on account of his involvement in a scandal concerning the treatment of haemophiliacs with HIV-contaminated blood , for which he is facing manslaughter . |
| 49 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 50 | Currently , he is harassing Luton Council for a statue to commemorate Raddy Antic , whose last-minute goal at Maine Road , a decade or so back , prevented Luton from dropping into Division Two . |
| 51 | He is recommending Rank Organisation 8¼ p.c. ( down 1 at 103p ) , Carlton Communications 6½ p.c. ( steady at 84p ) and Queens Moat 7½ p.c. ( ½ weaker at 95½p ) in the first instance , together with British Land 6⅝ p.c. ( down £1 at £74 ) for those wanting a spicy play on the property sector . |
| 52 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 53 | Mr Nath has already raised £700 towards the cost of hospital bills and transport for two-year-old Constantin and now he is hoping others will join him in his fundraising . |
| 54 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 55 | He is demanding £10,000 , leaving us penniless . |
| 56 | He is in prison for committing violent crimes against English imperialism and he is demanding status as a political prisoner . |
| 57 | He is telling Larry about his whippets . |
| 58 | ‘ He is still weak , but he is telling jokes , ’ he said . |
| 59 | Shylock has been prosecuted , wrongly done on numerous occasions , by Antonio , therefore he is getting revenge — the Old Testament says he should . |
| 60 | He swims in the 50m butterfly , for which he is ranked No 3 in Britain , and hopes to compete in other events . |