Example sentences of "he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must remember that he is waging a dirty war . |
| 2 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 3 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 4 | And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers . |
| 5 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 6 | But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 9 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 10 | He is noted as drinking no more than three cups of wine or beer at a meal , and for punishing drunkenness among his followers . |
| 11 | He is noted in Treasury records from 1671 as a member of a number of official commissions , notably as a commissioner for appeals in excise . |
| 12 | Down in Ballymena , he is noted as his home town 's most fervent Liverpool supporter … |
| 13 | He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory . |
| 14 | He is employed by a Sett of Noble Men ( by my recommendation ) to collect seeds and specimens of rare plants ’ . |
| 15 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 16 | He is employed doing whatever it is he does by a Bank whose caring dirigeants wear pin-striped underpants and will look after him until he retires . |
| 17 | Where he is employed by the society , that will be indicated below the signature . |
| 18 | The report consists of seven pages , the first six , described as the inspection report , signed at the foot of page six by the surveyor with an indication whether or not he is employed . |
| 19 | However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company . |
| 20 | He is employed as an assistant to the Production Director and is attending a SCOTVEC day release course in Business Studies . |
| 21 | He is employed as a Graduate Trainee in Production Planning . |
| 22 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 23 | It is also a coincidence here that Pip 's one unselfish use of his good fortune is the only source of future blessing to him , as he is employed too by this same company . |
| 24 | It is true that God is not yet totally banished from his creation , but having made it and all that is in it , rather like a watchmaker constructs a timepiece , he is felt to be no longer necessary to explain the inner workings of the mechanism . |
| 25 | To the Nuer , god appears both as lofty and remote , though omnipotent , while sometimes approachable and near-at-hand : indeed on some occasions he is felt to be too close for comfort and is earnestly beseeched to withdraw his presence and leave his people in peace . |
| 26 | He is charged with ensuring that the Operator providing the signal complies with the rules of coverage , with coordinating committee coverage , and with generally liaising between HOCBUL , the Operator , the broadcasters , the Committee itself and Members and Officers of the House . |
| 27 | He is charged with leading the team and with day to day liaison with the Lexicographer Group . |
| 28 | As Comptroller General he is charged with authorizing the amounts paid out to spending departments by the Paymaster General , in accordance with the votes specified in the Appropriation Act . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So far as possible the particulars of the charge shall be stated in simple terms , but they shall also show the precise offence in law with which he is charged . |