Example sentences of "he is [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes he is beset by disturbing dreams or sensations while asleep . |
| 6 | He is endowed with specific talents . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | He is troubled for two reasons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Loudspeakers lead the visitor from one counter to another , where he is deluged in official documents , forms and certificates to fill in . |
| 12 | The athlete statues of Polykleitos , later in the century , might well stem from this tradition , and he is claimed for both cities . |
| 13 | However , he is reduced to sleazy encounters with both men and women in 42nd Street grindhouses and hotels . |
| 14 | An important example is George Crabbe , who grew up in poverty but eventually became a priest ; although his poetry is deeply informed by the experience of poverty , he is alienated in many respects from the class into which he was born . |
| 15 | Yes its Orange Walk season , when we are invited to rejoice in celebrating the victory of King William of Orange ( or Good King Billy as he is known in some circles ) at the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 16 | Otherwise he is restricted to those jobs which he can do one-handed . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 18 | Sometimes he is reminded of several things . |
| 19 | In a letter to The Times she wrote : ‘ He is used to one-to-one relationships but society , and certainly schools , are composed of groups of people . |
| 20 | He is used to abrupt changes . |
| 21 | And Chelsea have refused Albion permission to field on-loan midfielder Alan Dickens in case he is required in later rounds of the competition at Stamford Bridge . |
| 22 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |