Example sentences of "that he is [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 2 | He revealed to ACCOUNTANCY that he is getting extra discounts of around 10% from the six major publishers that are now involved . |
| 3 | Ted Hill , the Labour Party agent , has told the Enfield Advertiser that he is taking legal advice about this . |
| 4 | The speculator knows that he is taking risky decisions . |
| 5 | Without going into whether the information would come from his audit file or the client 's file , the Institute has a stated policy that it will not put pressure on the incumbent auditor/adviser to supply information to a successor while fees remain outstanding — though the incumbent should be prepared to demonstrate that he is taking active steps to collect the outstanding fee including , if necessary , a writ or summons . |
| 6 | That he is exposing all . |
| 7 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 8 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 9 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 10 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 11 | STOP PRESS Eric has today announced that he is joining Icelandic Second Division side Fram Reykjavik . |
| 12 | Admittedly , he says that he is describing ethical discussion as it is , rather than as it ought to be . |
| 13 | Subsequently we have reason to believe that he is keeping additional narcotics on the premises and we have a right to search your home without a warrant . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties . |
| 15 | They believe , because they want to believe it , that he is offering disinterested advice , as best befits their needs . |
| 16 | But to read Wittgenstein as a behaviourist is to ignore the many passages in which he explicitly disavows that he is attacking one experiential explanation only to embrace another , and to ignore his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 17 | If the patient watches television , it should be positioned so that he is sitting straight to see it : he should not have to turn his head , or bend or crick his neck . |
| 18 | In reply to BS Berlyn 's letter in the December issue of Credit Management where he complain about a creditor 's inability to enforce judgment against its debtor when a winding-up petition has been presented against that debtor , I can only say that he is ignoring one of the fundamental concepts of English insolvency law , that all creditors should be treated equally when their debtor becomes insolvent . |