Example sentences of "he is [adv] [verb] [subord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 10 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 11 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 12 | Although he is often characterized as retiring and eccentric , he entertained distinguished visitors in style , and studio staff were frequently welcomed to Old Place and treated with considerable generosity . |
| 13 | ( He is often regarded as having anticipated elements of psycho-analysis in what he said on this . ) |
| 14 | On the other hand , as a group activity it can be less than enjoyable for the shortest child in the group if he is continually identified as ‘ the shortest ’ , when he needs to believe that ‘ he 's a big boy , really ’ . |
| 15 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 16 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 17 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |