Example sentences of "he is [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 2 | He is noted as drinking no more than three cups of wine or beer at a meal , and for punishing drunkenness among his followers . |
| 3 | Down in Ballymena , he is noted as his home town 's most fervent Liverpool supporter … |
| 4 | At the time a person is charged he shall be given a written notice showing particulars of the offence with which he is charged and including the name of the officer in the case ( in terrorist cases , the officer 's warrant number instead ) , his police station and the reference number for the case . |
| 5 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 7 | The tenant may have a remedy in contract based on the lease if he is injured and the landlord has broken a covenant to repair . |
| 8 | He is guarded but friendly . |
| 9 | Once again Day-Lewis manages almost chameleon-like to become subsumed by the part he is acting and although here it is basically one dimensional he persuades easily that this is his actual persona . |
| 10 | If in battle I see an explosion and my comrade , having lost half a leg , is doubled up in agony , there is no possibility that he is acting or pretending . |
| 11 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 12 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 13 | He is thinking that Beuno had lived here all his life and no one Sought of things for him to do , or gave parties for him before . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe he is thinking that today he will loose his freedom . |
| 15 | ‘ He is mistaken if he believes the United States or United Nations lacks resolve , ’ said Mr Clinton last night . |
| 16 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 17 | But he is regarded as one of the quickest men in Welsh rugby and has 198 career tries to support the claim . |
| 18 | He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of science , and you as the first novelist of science . ’ |
| 19 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |
| 20 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 21 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
| 22 | He is baffled that his meetings with foreign dignitaries are often relegated to the news-in-brief columns . |
| 23 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 24 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |
| 25 | There he became a renowned ornithologist where his work is recognised to-day as being of immense scientific value and he is accepted as being the father of American Ornithology . |
| 26 | Here he will have to serve a form of apprenticeship before he is accepted or even noticed . |
| 27 | ‘ 1(2) In determining whether a person is a fit and proper person to hold any particular position , regard shall be had to his probity , to his competence and soundness of judgement for fulfilling the responsibilities of that position , to the diligence with which he is fulfilling or likely to fulfil those responsibilities and to whether the interests of depositors or potential depositors of the institution are , or are likely to be , in any way threatened by his holding that position . |
| 28 | On the way to the car , he is asked if the interferon treatment helps . |
| 29 | Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others . |
| 30 | He is asked if he has been booked . |