Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He is looking into the possibility of grant aid and members will be informed when firm progress has been made . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Tibet 's cries are unlikely in themselves to influence the president one way or another ; he is looking at the broad picture of conditions throughout China . |
| 35 | He is looking at the flowers , but he keeps turning towards the house . |
| 36 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 37 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Now , he is living in the UK : ‘ I like the weather here and the people are friendly — no revolvers . ’ |
| 42 | 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 ’ . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | ‘ He is shot in the leg , ’ the Iranian replied as D'Arcy crossed the room . |
| 46 | He is speaking to the scribes , to the Pharisees . |
| 47 | He is speaking to the scribes and Pharisees . |
| 48 | 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 ? " ) |
| 49 | The head is an important part of a pint of beer and if beer is dispensed in the way that he is advocating through the implementation of section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , the taste , texture and colour of cask-conditioned beer could be altered to the detriment of the discerning beer-drinking public . |
| 50 | He is met with the hissing of his followers now instead of the huge applause he expected . |
| 51 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | If he is bound by the judicial view in relation to the date of the first review for prisoners serving discretionary life sentences , he is also so bound in relation to those serving mandatory life sentences . |
| 55 | 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 : |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Soon he is befriended by the kindly German ‘ Doc ’ ( Armin Mueller-Stahl ) who is interned in the local prison And we see him taught to box and fend fro himself by a likeable petty thief ( Morgan Freeman ) . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Ordered , That all Members who are returned for two or more places in any part of the United Kingdom to make their Election for which of the places they will serve , within one week after it shall appear that there is no question upon the Return for that place ; and if anything shall come in question touching the Return or Election of any Member , he is to withdraw during the time the matter is in debate ; and that all Members returned upon double Returns do withdraw till their Returns are determined . |