Example sentences of "he is [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he is employed by the society , that will be indicated below the signature . |
| 2 | He is charged with the murder of all three women , his wife , daughter and mother-in-law sometime between the 14th and 20th of August . |
| 3 | When acting in a judicial capacity he is thrown back on his own resources , whereas in his ministerial capacity he is assisted by the staff of a major department of state . |
| 4 | He is flanked by the Angels |
| 5 | What we are reading may invite reaction : Shirley Hughes expects us to react to Dave 's loss of Dogger and to be concerned about the problem of Alfie when he is locked inside the house . |
| 6 | Daniel Höchstetter , like his father Joachim , was a master miner and he is credited with the invention of a mine pumping engine . |
| 7 | But he is perceived as the spokesman of the new regime , and he has always said that he wanted the Panel to ‘ find a company to hang ’ . |
| 8 | However , he is regarded as the founder of the subject of ‘ archaeoastronomy ’ . |
| 9 | He is called to the realisation that he is part of the force , the force is god , and therefore he is god . |
| 10 | When there is an appeal from the decision of the benchers , the judges of the Common Pleas join in sitting upon that appeal ; and if the candidate be called to the Bar , I say , he is called to the Bar — by the judges of the Common Pleas . |
| 11 | He finds an icon for his teaching in the Old Testament account ( Exodus 19 ) of Moses ' ascent of Sinai where he is separated from the people and priests by a cloud in the darkness of which he encounters God . |
| 12 | William Cosyn , servant to William Browne ( who was worth no more than 20s. ) , may very well have been a journeyman , for he is followed in the list by Stephen Martyn , ‘ apprentice to the same William ’ . |
| 13 | His tall figure , spear held on his shoulder , strides back across the savannah until the moonlight gives out and he is consumed by the landscape . |
| 14 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 15 | ‘ He is shot in the leg , ’ the Iranian replied as D'Arcy crossed the room . |
| 16 | When he arrives for his pleasure he is asked by the girl 's mother : ( " Have you brought the goods that you are to give to my girl ? " ) |
| 17 | He is met with the hissing of his followers now instead of the huge applause he expected . |
| 18 | He is commemorated by the Edinburgh Geological Society Clough memorial medal , awarded annually to geologists who have done significant original work in Scotland or northern England . |
| 19 | It is curious that he is commemorated in the ASB simply as a bishop ; for he was seldom if ever present in his diocese during the great Church festivals of the year . |
| 20 | In the full flush of eager planning , in the excitement of disciplining intuition by stern reasoning , he is warned by the response of his subordinate to his behaviour : |
| 21 | If a detainee tells a FME that he wishes to give him confidential information , he is warned by the doctor that confidentiality does not apply to anything against the public interest , for it would be improper for the doctor to collude in deception . |
| 22 | And he is involved through the ENYBPG in the current battle to beat the baiters with £1,000 in rewards offered by groups incensed at the cruelty . |
| 23 | When he is challenged about the Opposition 's attitude to trade union legislation , the hon. Gentleman says that that is a matter of public record . |
| 24 | If the chattel has been purchased through a dealer or auction house or in market overt ‘ it can not be recovered from the first purchaser or any subsequent bona fide purchaser , unless he is compensated for the purchase-money paid ’ [ Art . |
| 25 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 26 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 27 | He is pictured on the right receiving gift vouchers which he spent on household items and also treated himself to a new pair of binoculars for his bird watching hobby . |
| 28 | Immediately below , he is pictured in the classroom of a Cleveland Local Education Authority school beside a teacher who left the CTC . |
| 29 | As publisher and chief executive of the New York Times , he is bashed about the ears by almost everybody he meets . |
| 30 | He is revealed as the creator of this world and we , made in his image , are appointed as trustees over the physical universe . |