Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Doe insists that he is no opponent of privatisation as such and has no political axe to grind : ‘ I 'm not concerned who owns BR as such : there could be advantages in taking BR out of the public sector in terms of investment rules ’ , he said . |
| 2 | Pelops wins because he is given even swifter horses by his lover Poseidon ; Oenomaus 's death is barely alluded to ; Myrtilos not at all . |
| 3 | George cares what Lennie thinks because he is frightened easily and so always puts things straight and simple for Lennie . |
| 4 | Falkowski shows that he is very much his own man as a conductor . |
| 5 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 6 | Travers realizes that he is not as skilled as these two and returns home to his wife , Marie , and a more honest way of making a living . |
| 7 | After reading Caesar 's will , every moment becoming more and more popular , Antony claims that he is an ordinary man . |
| 8 | Despite all the setbacks and frustrations , however , Turner insists that he is not disillusioned with the music business . |
| 9 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 10 | On the other hand , a glance at the likes of Federico Mendez suggests if he is good enough , he is old enough — unless you subscribe to the theory that the dates of birth of Argentinian props are as suspect as those of Pakistani fast bowlers ! ( * For the cricketers this refers to Mike and Mike , not Wes and Charlie ) . |
| 11 | In qualifying ‘ scientific ’ by ‘ in a broad sense ’ Kemp shows that he is aware of this problem . |
| 12 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 13 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 14 | Amos protests that he is no prophet in the ecstatic sense , such as were to be found in attendance at the sanctuaries of his day . |
| 15 | We can argue about what ’ federal ’ means , but Chancellor Kohl knows that he is head of a federal state . |
| 16 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 17 | Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available . |
| 18 | Following the success of Jamie Delgado in the Orange Bowl tournament in Florida in December , Lloyd confirms that he is looking to expand upon the squad scheme from which Delgado has emerged . |
| 19 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 20 | The difference is the eyes : this Christ looks like he is pursued by demons . |
| 21 | Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority . |
| 22 | After the meeting Husseini says that he is not " more or less optimistic " . |
| 23 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 24 | Kuhn denies that he is a relativist . |
| 25 | Hunt admits that he is not a ‘ natural ’ developer of a car : he would test because he had to , but his temperament was far more adapted to racing . |
| 26 | And Platt admits that he is likely to need surgery in the near future to cure the ailment . |
| 27 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 28 | Nicholas succeeds because he is different , with naked and unambiguous phallocentric maleness . |
| 29 | Alex believes that he is like his idol in one major way determination . |
| 30 | Mr Haselhurst claims that he is ‘ not aware of any preconceived plan ’ but seems unaware that Michel Rocard , Prime Minister of France , describes himself as ‘ a complete federalist ’ and of the recent advocacy by the five Christian Democrat leaders in Europe of a Single European Government and a Single European Parliament . |