Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1266 onwards he is regularly described as magister in official records , indicating that he too was recognized as a rabbi within the Jewish community . |
| 2 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 3 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 4 | He is well respected and popular , as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity . |
| 5 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 6 | If Genet is seduced by the magnanimity of the fedayeen , their selflessness , courage , humour , and love for each other , he is also perplexed and disillusioned by the inseparability of these qualities from an ‘ underlying desire for self-slaughter , for glorious death if victory was impossible ’ ( pp. 271 — 2 ) . |
| 7 | He is also writing and illustrating an adventure story based on the life of Marco Polo , and working with Michael Morpurgo on a retelling of the legends of King Arthur . |
| 8 | Founder of one of the most successful fashion houses in Paris , he is also founder and President of the Syndicate of Designers and Creators of Ready-to-Wear which brought haute couture into the open market place , particularly in America . |
| 9 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 10 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 11 | For older people he is implicitly saying that the usual pattern is to go into residential care ’ . |
| 12 | There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The provincial Assembly in Kosovo on May 23 refused the resignation of Jusuf Zejnulahu , the President of the Kosovo Executive Council [ see p. 37382 , where he is incorrectly described as Chairman of the provincial Assembly ] , and of nine other ethnic-Albanian members of his government . |
| 15 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 16 | He is both idolized and despised within the Union movement . |
| 17 | A statute is , after all , the formal and complete intimation to the citizen of a particular rule of the law which he is enjoined , sometimes under penalty , to obey and by which he is both expected and entitled to regulate his conduct . |
| 18 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 19 | Now he is simply hoping that he is eligible to try to win the award again . |
| 20 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 21 | An enthusiastic Snotling will fight his way forward and pump like crazy for a while until he is completely exhausted when another will shove him aside and take over . |
| 22 | He is finally met and defeated at the Battle of Osterwald . |
| 23 | Now what saying with that , that 'll be used again when he is actually walking and does n't need a pram and the other one 's still toddelling |
| 24 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 25 | He is now living and working in Guisborough . |
| 26 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 27 | He is now investigating if leukaemia cases rose in Orkney and Shetland due to wartime incomers and is also looking at the effects of large construction projects in Britain in the post-war period . |
| 28 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 29 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 30 | ‘ So he is therefore claiming that , as I have no further work for him , then I must make him redundant . ’ |