Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] he is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff 's feelings may be wounded if he is subjected to aggressive cross-examination , especially if it is designed to support what transpires to be an unsuccessful plea of justification , so this forensic factor may be brought into account . |
| 2 | When Pip finds out that Estella is to marry Drummle he is shocked but at this moment he is more devoted to Magwitch who will be hanged if he is caught . |
| 3 | The plan was adopted and he is acknowledged to have been the father of the modem U.S. Navy . |
| 4 | No one , so far as I know , has ever questioned such a suspension on the ground that it could not be done unless he is given notice of the charge and an opportunity of defending himself and so forth . |
| 5 | WHEN Darren O'Leary plays for London against the North in the final round of the ADT Divisional Championship today he will be forgiven if he is caught day-dreaming of England training in sunny Lanzarote . |
| 6 | He is bitterly humiliated when he is beaten in a fist-battle with Thomas Fox , arranged by the captain as the climax to a day of races and contests organised to keep the hands occupied while the ship is becalmed . |
| 7 | The patient may gradually be raised until he is propped in an upright sitting position to reduce the pressure of the abdominal organs on the diaphragm . |
| 8 | This fate might be waived if he is considered a good influence on the other dealers . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal held : [ a ] man may be said to know that goods are stolen when he is told by someone with first hand knowledge … that such is the case … |
| 10 | He is caged and he is muzzled — and still he is arrogant and defiant and still there is the cynical mockery in his eyes . |
| 11 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 12 | The acquisition of language — an incredibly daunting task to one who has never heard it and never will — is therefore of crucial importance to a prelingually deaf child without an education which teaches him language his potential capacity and intelligence are forever wasted and he is destined to lead a primitive life appearing mentally defective to a hearing world . |
| 13 | My work here will be finished if he is hanged . |
| 14 | The Doom Diver model is not removed when he is shot , but remains in place to indicate that the catapult has a crew of Doom Divers standing ready . |
| 15 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 16 | As he is a victim of his own loyalty to the England cause , the RFU 's credibility can only be maintained if he is compensated — even if this means contradicting the edict of the 1890's which caused the original rugby league to break from the union code . |
| 17 | If he has , they will only be discovered if he is put to the test . |
| 18 | Do thousands more have to be massacred before he is toppled ? |
| 19 | But hopes of seeing Dublin-born Leicestershire batman Justin Benson in action for Munster have evaporated as he is tied up with Leicestershire 's Second XI next Thursday and Friday in the hope of being selected for Leicestershire 's three-day match against Australia . |
| 20 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |
| 21 | Both these are sometimes slightly exaggerated : there has been some decentralisation since 1983 and , as the period of cohabitation demonstrated , the President 's power can be compromised if he is faced by a hostile majority in the Assemblée Nationale . |
| 22 | Suspicion may rest on him : and so he is suspended until he is cleared of it . |
| 23 | League official David Howes confirmed that a sample had proved positive but , in line with normal procedure , neither the name of the player nor his club will be released unless he is found guilty of taking a prohibited substance , writes John Whalley . |