Example sentences of "and [conj] he is " in BNC.

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1 Except I ca n't , because I have to follow Marcus and where he is I will be .
2 ‘ In John Major you have a pilot at the helm who knows where he comes from and where he is going . ’
3 We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days .
4 To drive a London black cab , you have to pass stringent geographical and driving tests , so you can be sure that any London cabbie knows what he is doing and where he is going .
5 However , it is in his treatment of ideology that Gramsci 's legacy has been most pervasive and where he is the unmistakable precursor of all the Marxist and post-Marxist theorists we now proceed to discuss .
6 Yesterday a spokesman said : ‘ It 's a complete mystery who this man is and where he is from .
7 J E Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) can stop wondering who ‘ the man on the tricycle is and where he is going ’ , as I am that man .
8 ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted .
9 The word here — many talk but few are willing to be quoted — is that Nelson Mandela will be the last to go , and that he is working closely with the government in arranging a timetable for the releases .
10 The deference the government is showing him points to the recognition , finally , that Mr Mandela is the symbolic leader of the disenfranchised black majority , and that he is , accordingly , a key player .
11 ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive .
12 It is true that all polls showed how popular Mr Smith was with voters , and that he is the most experienced and competent man on offer .
13 As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people .
14 The most common type of instrumental argument relies , as a reason for recognizing the validity of consent , on the facts that the agent has the best information to judge whether it is best to create the right or not and that he is sufficiently motivated to act for the best .
15 A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript .
16 ‘ Why , folks do say , your honor ! as how that he is a Poet , and that he is going to put Quantock and all about here in print ; and as they be so much together , I suppose that the strange gentleman has some consarn in the business . ’
17 The role of the physician with an interest in diabetes is to ensure that they have the necessary treatment policies and training and that he is readily available for advice on the more difficult cases .
18 Thus , it shows that man has an inherent ability to overcome his misfortunes and that he is not dependent upon his material success .
19 There is the further objection that Christian orthodoxy ( be it Catholic or Protestant ) teaches that the Son has sole access to the Father within the Holy Trinity and that He is the sole advocate before the throne of Judgment .
20 I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance .
21 To the extent that activities are spontaneous it appears that they belong to the realm of the caused ( which in the case of biological process is obvious enough ) , and that he is a free agent only to the extent that he learns to direct them .
22 Ben seems to forget that he is not the only one in the world to be making progress , that it is not just the routes he puts up which are the difficult ones , and that he is n't the best climber there is .
23 As for Fred , we have to remember that it is Chrissie 's word against his , and that he is entitled to the benefit of any doubt .
24 And to that ultimate challenge of the book the herb can not reply , except by realising that he does not know the answer , and that he is glad he does not know .
25 ‘ 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 .
26 Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties .
27 It is advisable to check that your complaint comes within the Ombudsman 's Terms of Reference , and that he is therefore able to adjudicate in your case .
28 The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT .
29 To take the weakest case first ; even if the sceptic were unwise enough to admit that any assertion involves a claim to knowledge and that he is asserting his conclusion that knowledge is impossible , he can still maintain his position .
30 I am pleased to report that Ken 's attack was not major and that he is well on the way to recovery .
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