Example sentences of "is [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 2 | ‘ The miracle is that he lived so long . |
| 3 | All I know is that he lived in Glasgow . |
| 4 | The reason we know that God recognises this dimension in the human personality is that he goes to such great lengths to make it very clear that he loves us , and one of his primary commands to us is that we must love one another . |
| 5 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 6 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 7 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 8 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 9 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 10 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 11 | Anyone in the building can breathe and move but is unable to see any thing , so the theory is that he wanders clueless in a cloud until the security-squad charges in with a chemical that breaks the foam up . |
| 12 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 13 | The rumour here is that he killed MacQuillan and now he 's committed suicide . ’ |
| 14 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 15 | A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all . |
| 16 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 17 | ‘ All we can hope from this meeting is that he admits being the hoaxer . |
| 18 | The fact is that he blew up badly . ’ |
| 19 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 20 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 21 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 22 | The theological answer is that He feels at home anywhere because He is at home everywhere . |
| 23 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 24 | But what is unquestionably true is that he spent much of I 188 not on the way to the Holy Land but in the castles and camps of south-western France , and that widespread rumour said that his enemies were bribed and incited into action by his own father , determined to keep Richard back until they could go together . |
| 25 | ‘ His weakness , ’ the critic C. A. Lejeune perceptively remarked , ‘ is that he plays a lone hand . |
| 26 | A likely reason is that he plays safe , sticking to his present supplier or model in order to lessen the risk of aggravation should problems occur . |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble with Joe , ’ one of his more affluent colleagues in the pop business told me , ‘ is that he suffers from the fatal curse of taste . ’ |
| 28 | Suppose that you decide that the employee 's main payoff from constantly telephoning you is that he receives encouragement and reassurance . |
| 29 | The consequence ( usually ) is that he achieves his goal ; he coerces you both into giving way a very rewarding state of affairs seen from his point of view , a very unrewarding ( and sometimes humiliating ) state of affairs seen from your perspective . |
| 30 | I know nothing about his treatment of women ; erm all I know about is that he chose not to elect a woman to the cabinet . |