Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seated where he is , Rhys Williams knows one false move could mean the might of God descending on him at any moment . |
| 2 | Either that or he is doing this with deliberate skill to gain her confidence . ’ |
| 3 | But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the |
| 4 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 5 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 6 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 7 | Although negotiations are continuing between Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , and John Duggan , his counterpart at Cabra , the latter has made it clear that he is unhappy with the alternative deal proposed by the club . |
| 8 | From the outset , Cohn makes it very clear that he is bent on taking a walk on the wild side , to chronicle the lives of the losers he meets along this small strip of the Great American Nowhere . |
| 9 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 10 | From his own statements , it is clear that he is word-perfect in his familiarity with the prophetic books of the Old Testament , can quote them at will , can move among them with the facility and expertise of a professional scholar . |
| 11 | Even without knowing the standpoint of Snowden , it is clear that he is condemnatory . |
| 12 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 13 | It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business . |
| 14 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 15 | On the question of cancellation charges and other matters , the Minister has made it clear that he is not prepared to talk in terms of sums . |
| 16 | Medicine Mr Portillo has made clear that he is examining every possible area of Government spending in the task of cutting the bill before the Chancellor 's next budget in November . |
| 17 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 18 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 19 | What we want is fighting talk , and fighting spirit , I want Macca to prove me wrong that he is not a big girl 's blouse . |
| 20 | And Mr Walesa is probably miffed , too , that opinion polls show Mr Mazowiecki to be more popular than he is . |
| 21 | Linguists not working within Labov 's general framework are often less careful than he is about candid recording . |
| 22 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 23 | However , with regard to the hon. Gentleman 's request that we should lift sanctions , I am afraid that he is way out of line . |
| 24 | I am afraid that he is right : not everybody is benefiting from kidney replacement , because there is a shortage of kidney donors . |
| 25 | I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders . |
| 26 | 12 ALTHOUGH he is an Italian , created by a Japanese , a recent New York Times editorial said : ‘ Not having a Nintendo is like not having a baseball bat . ’ |
| 27 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 28 | To say that someone is guilty of terrorism and drunken driving will be justifiable if he is a tee-total terrorist . |
| 29 | But I thought also — this is not the first time I have fled for my life with this man , who is brave if he is also stupid . |
| 30 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |