Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases the contract under consideration between the buyer and the seller will be a subcontract ( for instance to provide components ) which will be used by the buyer to fulfil part of his obligations under a prime contract where he is in his turn acting as the seller . |
| 2 | In the event of the contractor failing to provide the necessary proof of payment where he is able to do so , the employer has the right to pay the subcontractor direct and deduct the equivalent sums from other payments to the contractor . |
| 3 | PETER WILKS , NDO for Electrical and Electronic Engineering , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he is Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering . |
| 4 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
| 5 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 6 | And I think this inward investment that Professor Lock is referring to and the scale of investment that he is referring to must be considered as additional and and would draw in additional jobs . |
| 7 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 8 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 9 | It deconstructs the language of communication , representation , or expression ( when the individual or collective subject may have the illusion that he is imitating something or expressing himself ) and reconstructs another language , voluminous , having neither bottom nor surface … |
| 10 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 11 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 12 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 13 | He will reveal in tonight 's BBC1 Panorama programme that he is worried about facilities at the Berkshire plant run by private contractors since April which date back to the early days of the nuclear age . |
| 14 | Accordingly in such cases there must be an implied term of the contract with such an agent that he is entitled to act for other principals selling competing properties and to keep confidential the information obtained from each of his principals . |
| 15 | But it is worth bearing in mind that he is a fine iron player and , until his seven at the 10th hole in the third round of the Players ' Championship , he was jointly leading the field . |
| 16 | Women have viewed him differently , and , even at fifty-three , his Batman co-star Kim Basinger gives witness that he is ‘ the most highly sexed individual I ever met … he 's just the devil . ’ |
| 17 | I should say that he was good for at least another five years of hard work and although there are various rumours about his suffering from some obscure disease which makes his hand extremely shaky , I have had it on the quiet from his medical adviser that he is sound as a bell . |
| 18 | Aston Villa manager Atkinson is so convinced about McGrath 's future that he is ready to talk about a new contract with his key defender . |
| 19 | In creating the replica pavement , Mr Bob Woodward , a builder by trade , has undertaken such thorough background research that he is now regarded as a leading international expert on Roman mosaics . |
| 20 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 21 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 22 | If the person seems likely to overreact to the abuse or insults , and to use more force than he is entitled to employ , then it is likely that unlawful violence will be used , and the offence is committed . |
| 23 | Howard also finds with pleasure that he is beginning to speak a language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office , even to Phil — schuppen structure , Pennine ‘ windows ’ , and Dinaride outliers . |
| 24 | My right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has recently made statements , and was on the radio this morning , about the review that he is conducting of how court procedures can be improved . |
| 25 | Finally , if the surveyor can show the contractor that he is processing the claim and will.make his decision within a reasonable time , it should be possible to maintain a good relationship with him . |
| 26 | A Savage Orc shaman receives an additional magic card if he is with a Mob of Savage Orcs . |
| 27 | Opening rounds of 85 and 78 at the qualifying school in Montpellier have wrecked his chance of a 1993 tour card and he is close to quitting a game that once promised millionaire status . |
| 28 | The tremendous form of new skipper Steve Regeling has given Knott a boost and he is confident Dave Cheshire has got over his mechanical problems . |
| 29 | The broker may , in any event , act only as agent if he is not a member of the exchange at all but deals on the exchange through a member or , indeed , in the case of over-the-counter transactions . |
| 30 | Last night , a 55-year-old local man was charged with murder and he is expected to appear before Dyffryn Clwyd magistrates at Denbigh later today . |