Example sentences of "he [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 2 | ‘ We all know he is but it 's better we keep it quiet . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He is but heir presumptive . ’ |
| 6 | Er I I 'm sure he is but may not |
| 7 | I know he 's happy where he is but I miss him . |
| 8 | ‘ If what is written about the boy is true — if he is but a fraction as talented as is said … well , it would be a great waste to kill him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll remember , my lord , ’ said Iago , rising with alacrity from the grass , ‘ that he is but an earl in the making and has no Latin . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He is but an earl … ’ ’ |
| 11 | The one who brings the money , well — ’ Mordecai hesitated — ‘ I do not know what he is but he is not a servant . ’ |
| 12 | STEWART McDonald ca n't remember what age he is but knows he was born in 1947 . |
| 13 | Yes he is but the thing is cars at the moment are so cheap |
| 14 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 15 | I mean he is desperately concerned , I mean he , he loves us all with a concern which just er er er er i is greater than anything we can understand , so concern at the at the slightest er doubt about , I ca n't understand how concerned he is but er I totally relax |
| 16 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 17 | The more he reads , the more certain he is that it 's garbage — and how can you diplomatically conduct a love affair with a poet whose work you view in that light ? |
| 18 | He is that most traditional of stereotypes — the working class gone bad . |
| 19 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
| 20 | Because if he is that we can get that as an educational presentation . |
| 21 | There is doubt as to whether he is that " William " for whom Rolle wrote , at the end of his life , the Latin treatise , Emendatio Vitae , translated into English in the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! |
| 23 | Usually a priest matters more by what he is than by what he says . |
| 24 | This is shown in the way that he keeps comparing himself to Caesar , saying how much better and more deserving he is than Caesar . |
| 25 | ‘ And if it is not some political advantage he is after , what else is there ? |
| 26 | to know where he is before he gets all his mail . |
| 27 | They 'd have welcomed him because he is as he is while I was remote , cold . |
| 28 | He is an' all , ’ answered George . |
| 29 | This crablike sidling away from all he is and does catches the tune of the achieved , fully formed Stavrogin ; unlike Svidrigailov , who incidentally makes great play with the fact that he 's bored , he would — could — never call himself a debauchee . |
| 30 | ‘ I tell you , I do n't know who he is and I never saw him . ’ |