Example sentences of "he is [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 3 | Cam is denied the colour and glamour of Barbados as he is kept at work on a tally of the cargo as it is landed : later , a talk with the captain helps him to see this and other causes for resentment in a different light . |
| 4 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 5 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 6 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 7 | He too must drive off rivals once his older patron is gone if he is to remain in possession of his inherited females . |
| 8 | He is speaking in response to their grumbling . |
| 9 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 10 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 11 | Two of the main characters are Julian , who is writing a thesis on ‘ neopostdeconstructionism ’ , and Decibel , a voice he hears inside his head when he is recovering in hospital from an accident . |
| 12 | He is pictured with director of human resources George Stonier , signing the visitor 's book . |
| 13 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 14 | Secondly , the court may order him to forfeit his office if he is convicted for corruption under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 , and if he is convicted a second time under that Act he may be adjudged incapable for ever of holding a public office . |
| 15 | So he is hit by loss of orders , and can not find work for his employees . |
| 16 | The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek . |
| 17 | Stores controller in the purchasing department at Barlaston , Dave Lewis , is overseeing the data transfer which ties in with work he is undertaking as part of a three-year course at Staffordshire University . |
| 18 | He is announced in nature from the first appearance of organized beings ; and each important modification in the whole series of these beings is a step toward the definitive term of the development of organic life . |
| 19 | Although all exhibit Klemperer 's integrity of purpose and objective approach to the music in hand , he is heard for preference in Beethoven , Bruckner and Mahler . |
| 20 | He is lying on top of the covers , as he often is , with his head at the bottom of the bed and his feet on the pillow . |
| 21 | On that video he is talking with diarrhoea in his mouth . ’ |
| 22 | He is dwelling in ease in Kauai , Where the surf of the Makaiwa curves and bends , Where the kukui blossoms of Puna change , Where the waters of Wailua stretch out , He will live and die on Kauai . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement as to the progress he is making in implementation of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 . |
| 24 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 25 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 26 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 27 | As soon as he is shipped on board of a man-of-war he becomes as insignificant as a midshipman must unavoidably be from his humble situation . |
| 28 | " The dangerous feature of these unions " , wrote one such shipowner , " is that they really are benevolent societies and as such will necessarily accumulate funds , giving their members a contingent interest in those funds and therefore if a man should wish to retire from them as combinations , he is held by interest in them and consequently they must always be in operation " . |
| 29 | ‘ He is held in thrall to the Dark Ireland , but it was not my enchantment that chained him . ’ |
| 30 | If selling to a receiver you must be sure to establish whether the receiver is purchasing in his own name and assuming personal liability or whether he is purchasing on behalf of the receivership . |