Example sentences of "[noun sg] he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a lover he is sadly lacking , señorita . |
| 2 | As a result he is profoundly handicapped , both mentally and physically . |
| 3 | As a result he is now registered blind in one eye . |
| 4 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 5 | He 's a well-scrubbed type who looks pretty much like the Guardian book reviewer he is neatly dressed with a sensible fringe . |
| 6 | he uses words amounting to defamation he is not protected . |
| 7 | restrain my opponent from taking the action he is currently taking ? |
| 8 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 9 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 10 | In 1771 , Miller 's successor , William Forsyth , reported to the Garden Committee that Mr Miller , an engraver , desired to view and take plants ‘ as may be of use in the work he is now engaged on ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 12 | All we can say is that the burden of the wood adds further poignancy to an already heart-rending story , and throughout the journey acts as an all too visible reminder to Abraham of the act he is about to commit . |
| 13 | The question he is really asking , I think , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , is this : Is that secret strength a minus or a plus ? |
| 14 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 15 | He may admit ( unwisely again ) that in using that proposition as a premise he is implicitly claiming to know it to be true . |
| 16 | So when Summerchild steps out up Whitehall at the end of the day he is still hugging their secret madness to himself . |
| 17 | Although he is currently with the Halifax , as an existing borrower he is not allowed to apply for the fixed rate currently on offer from this society . |
| 18 | The image of the ascent of the ladder is relevant not only to the process of spiritual development he is about to describe , but also to the careful sequential structuring of his teaching where images and arguments accumulate to point towards a greater synthetic understanding . |
| 19 | Thus if the chargee is entitled to payment on demand he is not required to give the company a reasonable time in which to raise the funds to make payment and is only required to give the company time in which to put into effect the mechanics of payment . |
| 20 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |
| 21 | It is not always easy to keep Warrant Officer McSeveny 's mind on catering , because he is a rugby referee of note and When not on parade with his whistle he is usually talking or playing rugby . |
| 22 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 23 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 24 | These minor changes in style are all designed to make the unchurched newcomer feel that when he visits the church he is not visiting another planet . |
| 25 | Having willed himself to be a snake he is then made one by God , demonstrating his impotence in comparison to the Deity . |
| 26 | To a disenchanted eye , Nash seems not quite the genius he is generally thought to have been : he was a notorious jerry-builder who pillaged and cheapened classical motifs as does the builder of the modern executive home . |
| 27 | When Milton goes in the field he is usually turned out on his own . |
| 28 | ‘ I think maybe the reason he is n't speaking to me , ’ Ellie ventured , ‘ is something you might have said to him . ’ |
| 29 | And her parents are dead , and her uncle is rich and influential , and for some strange reason he is quite attached to you , and Jane Postlethwaite is quite attached herself , and it 's time you got married — ’ |
| 30 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |