Example sentences of "[verb] he is [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused must know he is a trespasser or be reckless to that fact . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know he is a mutant ? ’ |
| 3 | Kenny Logan won his first cap and demonstrated he is a player for the future . |
| 4 | I only say he is a man and will act like a man , given the chance . |
| 5 | Accordin' to Rodriguez , that is , so why dae ye say he is a cousin ? ’ |
| 6 | His family say he is a changed man . |
| 7 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in The Times today board members say he is the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 8 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 9 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 10 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 11 | What antagonises him is the prospect of the civiliser being rendered savage , the moral made immoral . |
| 12 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 13 | Life for Mr Winner will almost certainly continue as before with him mistakenly believing he is a figure of some note . |
| 14 | The man , who lives in Darlington and who can only be identified as David , had grown up believing he is a female in a male body . |
| 15 | Now she says he is a ‘ self-publicist and bully ’ who surrounds himself with ‘ court jesters and sycophants ’ in the Lords . |
| 16 | ‘ The lawyer says he is a perfect gentleman . ’ |
| 17 | He says he is a gentleman . |
| 18 | Police in Milton Keynes says he is a persistant criminal who should be locked up . |
| 19 | Police in Milton Keynes says he is a persistant criminal who should be locked up . |
| 20 | The paper can not name the man for legal reasons , but says he is a father of four and lives in New Cross , south-east London . |
| 21 | But he was born in Govan and , in spite of an American accent , says he is a proud Scot . |
| 22 | Now Mallius Seneca , who says he is the uncle of Seius Oceanus , is claiming the property on the ground of proximity , but Maximus claims it for himself since the person to whom he was asked to restore it has died . |
| 23 | I ask whether this property should belong to the trustee-heir , Captain Valerius Maximus , or to Mallius Seneca who says he is the uncle of the deceased boy . |
| 24 | He says he is the best young goalkeeper by far in all the North-East clubs . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Who says he is an American ’ |
| 26 | Lady Thatcher , furious at his reluctance to save the Serbs with British blood , says he is an accomplice to massacre . |
| 27 | Why do I feel he is the one who is dead , not Hilda . |
| 28 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 29 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 30 | ANC leaders decided to take on Gqozo because they figure he is the easiest to topple . |