Example sentences of "him is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 2 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 3 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 4 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 5 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 6 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 7 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 8 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 9 | But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money . |
| 10 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 11 | Another plus for him is that he is no longer surrounded by girls and the English , as he now has Kyle MacDougall at the hostel , so along with Andrew they are beginning to affirm themselves . |
| 12 | All I can tell you about him is that he was an ensign flying a Catalina aircraft in England thirty-two years ago . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he can fight in and out of the trenches . |
| 14 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 15 | Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up . |
| 16 | ‘ I think what came across most strongly about him is that he 's such a charming and pleasant person , ’ Dominic says of Justin . |
| 17 | The argument for not considering the other 8,538 votes originally given to him is that they have exhausted their potential . |
| 18 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 19 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 20 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 21 | But all that happens to him is that he topples into the mud with his arm broken and his face bruised from where the broken arm was smashed against it . |
| 22 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 23 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 24 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 25 | What I keep trying to tell him is that if you do something like this , this space underneath has to be at least as much between the top of the S as the and the baseline and they sell them . |