Example sentences of "[conj] he [is] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | told him that er seeing he 's on the sick he was n't allowed to go . |
| 2 | Nothing at all about Rocky … except he s in the 17 man squad ( which we already knew ) . |
| 3 | ‘ All I know is that he is with the naval air forces . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 5 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |
| 6 | It 's forty mile an hour zone anyway , so he 's in the right and you 're in the wrong anyway . |
| 7 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 8 | There 's a little boy in the nursery , and the the nursery teacher says he 's he 's thick , for a , he 's four , and he 's with the younger ones , and she said he 's thick because , erm , he just ca n't be bothered , but what it is , he knows it , |
| 9 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 10 | I think he 's thirty eight , and he 's on the first team . |
| 11 | ‘ And he 's in the best of care at Old Trafford . |
| 12 | Aqib Javed does n't swing the ball like that pair — and he 's in the same team , using the same ball . |
| 13 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's as if he 's in the same room . |
| 15 | Now we 're part of government policy which happens to be hear no evil see no evil … one bloody monkey 's enough if he 's in the top job . |
| 16 | He 'll also find out if he 's in the top three , and therefore will receive a further cash prize . |
| 17 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 18 | The Panel will not regard an adviser as independent if he is in the same group as the financial adviser to an offeror , or if he has a significant interest in or financial connection with either an offeror or the target company of such a kind as to create a conflict of interest ( Rule 3.3 ) . |
| 19 | My husband always maintains that white wine tastes better when drunk outside — by which he actually means that if he is in the open air he is relaxed and therefore more capable of enjoying anything . |
| 20 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 21 | Yeah , I thi but he 's on the local council . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll tell him , Frank , but he 's like the old man . |
| 23 | Yeah that 's because he 's with the other boy . |
| 24 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 26 | ‘ I have helped Phillips in the past , because he is unlike the other blancs . |
| 27 | Bill Clinton has gone out of his way to stress the so-called special relationship will not be imperilled while he is in the Oval Office . |
| 28 | whether he is on the right road or not : |
| 29 | ‘ Roy is no longer a threat when he 's in the back-four . |
| 30 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |