Example sentences of "he is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bakhtin means to mean something , however difficult the meaning , and reading him is recognizably like reading the great critics of the past . |
| 2 | But your ability to sympathise with him is powerfully lessened by the fact that this hero is also an immature prig and lying snob , whose principal objection to Helena is her social inferiority . |
| 3 | ‘ It is said that Watson replied , ‘ Is that you Mr Bell ? ’ but since there was only one telephone in the whole of God 's creation at the time , Bell ‘ s reply to HIM is not hard to guess at . |
| 4 | The evidence for the stranger 's allegiance is therefore ambiguous , and Mitchell makes clear that the partisan 's trust in him is not unconditional . |
| 5 | As for rearing the child in a laboratory , the unit prepared for him is not equipped with bunsen burners and retorts and animal cages . |
| 6 | His images are striking human forms ( though the painting visible behind him is not one of his own ) . |
| 7 | You have the sense to realise that taking out your anger on him is not the answer and will threaten your relationship . |
| 8 | WITH DUE respect to Devon Malcolm , anyone who has to resort to bowl bumpers at him is not much of a bowler . |
| 9 | The idea that a minister should have a political associate to assist him is not new . |
| 10 | It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable . |
| 11 | To follow him is not so difficult . |
| 12 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 13 | All the same , characterising him is not easy . |
| 14 | ‘ We want to give him the chance to tell us how this strong criticism of him is not justified . |
| 15 | The anxiety of the pope over a rumour concerning Offa 's malice towards him is here very evident . |
| 16 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 17 | It is worth noting , however , that Richards 's concept of poetry is similar to that which we have encountered in the previous two chapters , in that poetry for him is simply shorthand for literature that has aesthetic value ; his belief was that the value of literature as a whole lay entirely in its use of the emotive function of language . |
| 18 | Advertising is a one-way hard-sell in a political campaign and can be a good motivator as long as it does n't try to sell the voter something his guts tell him is n't true . |
| 19 | And suing him is n't going to help it . |
| 20 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |
| 21 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 22 | Murphy is insistent that one of the best people he has available to him is n't even on the payroll — his wife Lynne , who used to be in the PR industry herself . |
| 23 | for him is n't it ? |
| 24 | Well I mean that 's him is n't it ? |
| 25 | it 's up to him is n't it in a way |
| 26 | Well that 's what Norman Tebbit 's telling him is n't it ? |
| 27 | Oh That 's him is n't it ? ? |
| 28 | That 's him is n't it ? |
| 29 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 30 | I owe them more than money can pay , Gina , and finding Svend and trying to talk some sense into him is just one small thing I can do . |