Example sentences of "he is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your ability to sympathise with him is powerfully lessened by the fact that this hero is also an immature prig and lying snob , whose principal objection to Helena is her social inferiority . |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever club or staff was used on him is surely gone with the man who used it , but if the poor wretch 's corpse can tell us anything , let us discover it before we move him . ’ |
| 3 | The Spirit which rested upon him is now made over to them , along with the mission on which he was engaged ; this too is theirs . |
| 4 | He is firmly committed to the principle that Drama can stand on its own as an academic subject . |
| 5 | He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues . |
| 6 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 7 | An RUC officer said : ‘ He is regularly stopped at road checks by our patrols . |
| 8 | Kinnaird , who is chairing the seminar , says he is regularly asked to find a woman for a senior management job ‘ all other things being equal ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here , according to Acts , he is officially admitted to the Nazarean Party . |
| 11 | ‘ He is lost to you ; he is utterly bewitched ! |
| 12 | But the position from which he is today assessed rests on precarious , even quaint , over-simplifications . |
| 13 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 14 | whether he is adequately insured ; |
| 15 | He is traditionally associated , very closely , with the Messiah , the anointed one , the rightful king . |
| 16 | In fact Dorothy tells us more about the sunset and the landscape than William — and yet he is traditionally thought of in association with such moments of natural grandeur . |
| 17 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
| 18 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 19 | Depending on the nature of the offence , he is either warned to lay off , or to look for a job elsewhere . |
| 20 | In the small crop of past Paul Merton interviews , mostly with TV magazines , he is invariably described as a ‘ down to earth , average guy ’ , which is fairly accurate , although hardly an adequate explanation for Merton 's increasing success . |
| 21 | And yet , over the past few years , he is probably regarded in the Caribbean as the West Indies bowler able to extract more movement off the pitch than any other and , certainly , during last summer 's Test series against England , he and Ambrose were the leaders in the ‘ unplayable delivery ’ department . |
| 22 | He is probably known as Champagne Tom in the office , always breaking open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate handing over a fortune to another punter . |
| 23 | Yet despite the iconic status of Van Gogh 's ‘ tragic ’ life , it is the appearance of his work by which he is ultimately signified , his thick impasto brush-stroke , his vibrant yellows , the urgency of his creative drive . |
| 24 | During his death he takes a series of trips in different vehicles : the airplane-like ‘ vehicle of communication ’ , a boat , a car , a horse-drawn buggy and finally the cranial spaceship from which he is ultimately ejected back into life . |
| 25 | His life changes as he is drawn into a dangerous aura of incestuous relations surrounding the director and his beautiful sister Jenny ( Liza Walker ) to whom he is immediately drawn . |
| 26 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 27 | He is immediately besieged with cries of ‘ Good Old Charlie ’ , ‘ Mr Evolution ’ and ‘ Slimy Old Pruneface ’ ( from a disgruntled Wilberforce supporter who had slipped into the festivities ) . |
| 28 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 29 | So he is soon swaddled up again , and mentally he stays swaddled up until he dies . ’ |
| 30 | Life without ‘ Geech ’ , as he is affectionately known , is incomprehensible to many of a squad who have risen to world prominence as a direct result of his guidance . |