Example sentences of "he is [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is born with that instinct , for no mother wasp ever taught him , nor does he possess the capacity to learn something so fundamental to his existence . |
| 2 | He is selected for that reason , because he will not be suspected by the police . ’ |
| 3 | A Balinese , like a tree , he told us , must remember that he is strung between two worlds , balanced between the pull of gravity and the pull of heaven . |
| 4 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 5 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 6 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 7 | … He is reckoned of average intelligence … and is said to have a moderate faith in Islam . ’ |
| 8 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes he is beset by disturbing dreams or sensations while asleep . |
| 10 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 11 | He is endowed with specific talents . |
| 12 | But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way . |
| 13 | If he is convicted of this crime [ this ] punishment follows : the loss of members , that there be member for member for when a virgin is defiled she loses her member and therefore let her defiler be punished in the parts in which he offended . |
| 14 | Whenever he is stopped at military posts now , he produces his book and says , ‘ Look , these are all my friends who will protest if I am arrested again ’ . |
| 15 | He is troubled for two reasons . |
| 16 | He is cursed with this understanding . |
| 17 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 18 | He is said by reliable sources to be negotiating with both the US and Iran for compensation to give up the business , playing one nation off against the other . |
| 19 | He is dressed in expensive clothing and drives a new car : Judy Gomez refers to him as a pimp , thus indicating his involvement in sexual as well as social exploitation . |
| 20 | The announcement only fuelled speculation that he is earmarked for greater things in the Shandwick organisation , of which PRCS is now a part , or even that he was preparing the way for something completely different when his five-year golden handcuffs are released next year . |
| 21 | As the future of manufacturing investment depends on confidence in future economic performance , does my right hon. Friend think that anyone contemplating what will happen to his income will feel more confident if he is threatened with slow torture rather than immediate amputation ? |
| 22 | Loudspeakers lead the visitor from one counter to another , where he is deluged in official documents , forms and certificates to fill in . |
| 23 | He is heard to great advantage in the defiantly difficult Scherzo tarantelle , where he surmounts every complexity with seemingly effortless bravura , whilst his account of the Souvenir de Moscou is magnificent . |
| 24 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 25 | The athlete statues of Polykleitos , later in the century , might well stem from this tradition , and he is claimed for both cities . |
| 26 | This means that he is protected against any action of defamation provided he speaks in good faith and without malice ( Beach v. Freeson ( H.C. , 1972 ) ) , and provided there is a common interest between the parties . |
| 27 | He is surrounded by deep pathos , however , when sadly introduced by his father with callousness . |
| 28 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 29 | He is accused of direct interference in senior board and managerial appointments and other local decisions , and of holding back money in reserve to then push it out on waiting list initiatives . |
| 30 | He is backed by another director , Nigel Burrows , and has indicated that he would install Bobby Charlton as chairman if he wins control of the club . |