Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 2 | A person who is involved in a criminal act at the time he is injured may be denied an action . |
| 3 | For a person insensitive to visual impressions the pattern on the wallpaper he is buying may seem not to deserve close scrutiny ; but if the room he has papered begins after a while to depress him , it has turned out that the pattern was relevant to the choice after all . |
| 4 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 5 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 6 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 7 | However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful . |
| 8 | Viscount Parker is afraid that if he were to open up his land , much of the flora and wildlife would suffer , including buzzards and also red kites , which he is hoping will soon be re-established in the area . |
| 9 | The trial judge in proceedings which were commenced in the High Court and subsequently transferred to the county court is entitled to express the opinion referred to in s 51(8) ( b ) that the proceedings he is trying should have been commenced in the county court . |
| 10 | The fabric he is shifting will be taken to one of the many ateliers in Paris to be cut up and sewn into ready-to-wear , middle-market fashion . |
| 11 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 12 | Even here , the test of imminence discussed in Moss v. McLachlan suggest that there must be a clear and present danger that the conduct in which he is engaging will give rise to a breach of the peace , and it is demonstrable that the constable has no reasonable alternative course of action open to him other than to ask the speaker to desist , as by , for example , calling for assistance . |
| 13 | Five buildings of a hospital he is designing will be seated on these bearings . |
| 14 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | This is a person who quite likes the idea that the woman he is mashing might stick an ice-pick into his jugular at any second . |
| 16 | Just as fishkeepers tend to start their hobby with ‘ easy ’ livebearers , so the herpetologist invariably begins with an inexpensive animal that he is told will be easy to keep . |
| 17 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |