Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 2 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 3 | NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half . |
| 4 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 5 | Martin Bayfield has yet to convince me that he is answer to the no.2 jumping position , although his work in the rucks was good . |
| 6 | AUTHOR Jeffrey Archer tells me that he is still signing his name ‘ Jeffrey Archer ’ in his books , rejecting the easy option available since his peerage of signing just ‘ Archer ’ . |
| 7 | The new inspector advises me that he is restricting the loan interest relief to that payable on the Halifax loan on the basis that ‘ the net MIRAS arrangements have been fully utilised by the Halifax loan ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It is wonderful for me that he is there to talk to . |
| 9 | Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor , eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven . |
| 10 | Aycliffe himself assured me that he is convinced there was no complicity on your part . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 12 | He shows me that he is nervous . |
| 13 | A nasty suspicion comes to me that he is taking the question seriously . |
| 14 | So the environmental health officer that is dealing with that said to me that he is very stretched at weekends . |
| 15 | But Lazio have told them that he is covered by the policy taken out by the Italians at the time of his summer signing from Tottenham . |
| 16 | May I invite the Minister to come to Monmouth to discuss those problems with the farmers there , which will give him the opportunity to assure them that he is seeking to protect their interests ? |
| 17 | The usual way in which this duty is breached is for the employee to mention to customers that he is leaving and either directly or indirectly suggest to them that he is available to meet their needs once he has left . |
| 18 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 19 | In many cases he will try to over-compensate by rushing around doing things for others as if to prove to himself that he is needed . |
| 20 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 21 | ' ’ Giulia is old now and papa has persuaded himself that he is ; he has allowed himself to slip into old age . |
| 22 | To discover for himself that he is wrong . ’ |
| 23 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 24 | There is no saying what Maggie Wyllie sees in the insufferably humourless prig , who deludes himself that he is completely self-sufficient , but he represents a challenge to her feminine guile . |
| 25 | Section 34(2) provides for the application to be made by the authority or the child and the question has been raised whether the child , in that context , means the child himself if he is of sufficient age and understanding to make the application . |
| 26 | Christophe Deylaud has been encouraged to express himself and he is improving in heaps and bounds . |
| 27 | Once a patient is sedated or anaesthetized he is completely unable to care for himself and he is dependent upon the theatre team to ensure his safety . |
| 28 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 29 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 30 | Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country . |