Example sentences of "is [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ken Livingstone 's problem is that he is always on the television slagging the party off . ’ |
| 2 | The real problem is that he is Swiss and not Danish . |
| 3 | Thus the joke about Boss Mangan , the industrial magnate and political adviser , is that he is frock-coated , careworn and commonplace . |
| 4 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 5 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |
| 6 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 7 | The Washington Post said : ‘ The knock against Clinton is that he is shifty . |
| 8 | The essence of God is that he is personal . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the most important things to say about Welton Ambassador is that he is the result of the union of two great eventing families . ’ |
| 10 | The answer is that he is almost certainly afraid of something . |
| 11 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 12 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 13 | ‘ What he is hoping , by blurting out such nonsense , is that he is keeping his finger firmly on the self-destruct button for the British monarchy . ’ |
| 14 | It is that he is criminally insane — unable to stop himself from sexually abusing women he has lured with his position or his charm , and sometimes overpowered with drugs . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 16 | Another plus for him is that he is no longer surrounded by girls and the English , as he now has Kyle MacDougall at the hostel , so along with Andrew they are beginning to affirm themselves . |
| 17 | The main fact about Ferrari is that he is old . |
| 18 | He is back home with mother Christine now but she yesterday said : ‘ The medical advice is that he is not out of the woods yet . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Eubank trains very hard but the real secret to his success is that he is a very clean living boy , ’ said Davies . |
| 20 | The answer is that he is guessing . ’ |
| 21 | The problem is that he is jealous of the new baby . |
| 22 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 23 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 24 | My guess is that he is a receiver of stolen cars from all over the country . |
| 25 | The real tragedy of Tony Bland is that he is in the public eye . |
| 26 | His torment is that he is forced to face the etched face of a Daemonette carved into the wall opposite , which flicks out a long serrated fleshy tongue which rips into the man 's neck and chest . |
| 27 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 28 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 29 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 30 | It is no secret that Slobodan Milosevic [ the Serbian President ] is psychologically a self-destructive , suicidal type , but the trouble is that he is transferring his suicidal madness onto the nation as a whole . |