Example sentences of "he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is firmly committed to the principle that Drama can stand on its own as an academic subject . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 4 | An RUC officer said : ‘ He is regularly stopped at road checks by our patrols . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here , according to Acts , he is officially admitted to the Nazarean Party . |
| 8 | ‘ He is lost to you ; he is utterly bewitched ! |
| 9 | But the position from which he is today assessed rests on precarious , even quaint , over-simplifications . |
| 10 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 11 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 12 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 13 | Bowden firmly believes that the Irish record pollack could fall this season from one of the wrecks he is presently working over , and these recent successes augur well for the future . |
| 14 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 15 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 16 | He is equally unforthcoming about how he gets written out of Neighbours ; Joe Mangle will be no more in the New Year , but he wo n't reveal how . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | whether he is adequately insured ; |
| 19 | He is traditionally associated , very closely , with the Messiah , the anointed one , the rightful king . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Depending on the nature of the offence , he is either warned to lay off , or to look for a job elsewhere . |
| 24 | What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all . |
| 25 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | To laughter , he joked : ‘ He is probably looking after his pond . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My husband has n't got a fixed address and he is probably hiding . |
| 30 | 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 . |