Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is best left alone , and needs neither help nor interference from other players . |
| 2 | A man with a poor employment history , who has lost several jobs and experienced intermittent phases of unemployment , has a considerably raised probability of becoming depressed when he is again made redundant ( Eales , 1985 ) , but will also have a raised chance of being near the top of an employer 's list for redundancy in so far as it is the policy of many employers to exercise a ‘ last in first out ’ policy . |
| 3 | At every stoppage in the senior game the referee is applauded or jeered depending on which arm he raises to award the put-in , and he is rarely considered correct by everyone . |
| 4 | As a result he is now registered blind in one eye . |
| 5 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |
| 6 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 7 | He 's not become rich and successful and , tied to the drudgery of housework , she 's no longer the beauty he married . |
| 8 | Under the circumstances , he 's unfairly given short shrift . |
| 9 | Yeah , he 's always looked good |
| 10 | Against a dated aspirational set-up , Murphy plays a marketing exec/hotshot ladies ' man ( a change — in the past he 's always seduced other guys , in a manner of speaking ) . |