Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] he is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 2 | We have offered to help if he is brought here . |
| 3 | Not a diamond , perhaps , but a flinty , 18-carat performance from a competitive lad whose patient willingness to do as he is bid by club and country as either No 10 or 15 is a lasting credit . |
| 4 | While members must make the major policy decisions , Bains recognised that officers contribute to the stimulation and formulation of policy : ‘ … the skilled professional officer is not just a servant who is paid to do as he is told ’ ( Bains 1972:8 ) . |
| 5 | Cobb argues that social support arises in the eye of the beholder , and is anything that influences the person to perceive himself as the recipient of positive affect ; any information ‘ leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved … esteemed and valued … ’ |
| 6 | She begins to realise that he is bound to win , he is playing her in with an eternity of patience , amused and confident , indulging her now increases later enjoyment . |
| 7 | In England , no such evidence has come forward , but it is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland to decide whether he is convinced by the evidence . |
| 8 | These embellishments are crucial , for they give rise to the two forms of the Shakespearian Equation : ‘ In the first form , the tragic form , the hero rejects the Goddess and is killed by the boar ( arriving as madness ) , which is to say that he is transformed by it . |
| 9 | ‘ Baker will have time to recover if he is left out for one match . |
| 10 | In such cases it may be often difficult to say whether he is intended to be an arbitrator or to exercise some function other than that of an arbitrator. borderline cases identified above ( 15.7.7 ) , particularly the reference to experts of general disputes ( 6.9 ) . |
| 11 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |