Example sentences of "[that] he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I would only observe that he is well qualified for the post which he holds .
2 And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady .
3 The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee .
4 In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground .
5 It was for his contribution to social reform that he is most remembered .
6 His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities .
7 I believe that he is also calling us to break out of the margins and take the battle to the Enemy .
8 She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album .
9 the latest news on Ronny Johnsen is that he is also wanted at tottenham .
10 In either case , the anthropologist , in studying the domestic group and its interconnections with other domestic groups , finds that he is also studying , in model form , the structure of the local community and its interconnections with other local communities .
11 If his leaning is towards the physical side , or his leaning towards to biological side , to take chemistry , biology and physics , to take those subjects in the sixth form at A level , and then come straight to university and develop his inclinations in the way that he is here to do .
12 Mr Barre 's writ is so limited that he is disparagingly known as the mayor of Mogadishu .
13 ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does .
14 The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT .
15 As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever .
16 So while you might well overhear Eeyore sighing to himself , and know therefore that he is n't trying to mislead anyone , it 's much less likely ( though not of course impossible ) that you 'll overhear Rabbit muttering ‘ There 's honey ’ to himself .
17 This new dating agency allows HER to check she 's not being paired with the Incredible Hulk and he can make sure that he is n't getting a real-life Grotbags .
18 ‘ You can see , Miss Cathy , that he is n't dying of love for you !
19 And if he does and then I see him and that he is n't doing it any more , at least I 've got job satisfaction in that he has n't .
20 Antony firstly seeked the political side , he now appeals to their greed by producing Caesar 's will and saying that he is n't going to read it .
21 So I got ta make sure that he is n't going .
22 He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ .
23 It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork .
24 At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals .
25 The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench .
26 The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) .
27 He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman .
28 Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend .
29 The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife .
30 Mr Smith has publicly refused to endorse any of the deputy leadership challengers , insisting that he is not seeking a ‘ running mate ’ .
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