Example sentences of "be [verb] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been said he is heir to the famous Gilbey gin family . |
| 2 | I am told he is turning to wolves for the next . |
| 3 | Charming at first sight is this picture of the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl because he has been told he is beneath her . |
| 4 | ‘ Then suddenly you are told he is alive . |
| 5 | ’ From the information we are getting he is beside himself . |
| 6 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Cantona is a sensitive man who needs to be told he is doing well , even if he can do better . |
| 8 | Vesey slowly unrolls a stale Chelsea bun ; and it is to be feared he is hungry enough to eat it . |
| 9 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 10 | Ah but I 'm saying he is the hard one of the hardest blokes in Shields . |
| 11 | Those who invested in the pit will be hoping he is right . |
| 12 | ‘ Now he is proving he is a good manager all over again at Blackburn . |
| 13 | When Milton is resting he is turned out during the day , but he has to be put in a field without much grass because he is incurably greedy and , given the opportunity , gets very fat in no time at all . |
| 14 | Nobody 's suggesting he is a traitor , he 's one of our very best men . |
| 15 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 16 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 17 | It is said he is one of the Hidden Folk — a wizard of sorts — and as such he is not always popular . |
| 18 | When he realizes what he is doing he is amazed . |
| 19 | He is allegedly being held in a secret location in Riyadh where it is feared he is at risk of torture and execution . |
| 20 | A spokesperson for Morrissey confirmed that ‘ legal discussions are underway ’ and it 's believed he is consulting his advisers over non-payment of his performance fee . |
| 21 | However , it 's believed he is set to clean up with his own rock-bogography Diarrhoea Of A Rock 'n' Roll Star . |
| 22 | The paramount value which Semai place on avoidance of conflict or confrontation precludes a direct response , so a strategy of passive resistance is adopted : the person who is being importuned begins , without responding directly , to turn slowly , almost imperceptibly , around , until the one who is importuning him is speaking to his back . |
| 23 | he 's carrying he is in the post at the moment |
| 24 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 25 | ‘ But the way he is behaving he is like a coward . |
| 26 | Well that 's what Norman Tebbit 's telling him is n't it ? |
| 27 | That is to say he is not in the least drawn to the idea that Christ came in the flesh , and he finds the simplicity and literalism of what might be termed ‘ mere Christianity ’ frankly unacceptable . |
| 28 | He is content when he is working , because when he is working he is pleasing his owner and that is what a Rottweiler really loves to do . |
| 29 | This week Oscar Mammi , a former minister and the man responsible for Italy 's media laws , was told he is under investigation for receiving illicit funds . |
| 30 | But it was confirmed he is concerned that the cost of tunnelling through south London could be ‘ horrendous ’ . |