Example sentences of "he [is] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Jose-Maria Mendiluce , says he is revolted to hear those words from Mr Boban . |
| 2 | He is sure to take some beating with more enterprising tactics and can hand out a lesson in the New University Maiden . |
| 3 | But it is unlikely that Althusser would welcome such an option because , as we saw , he is anxious to reject this very distinction . |
| 4 | He is due to arrive this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travel on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 5 | He is content to believe this , the implication being that he is invulnerable except to anyone who is alive , who has been born . |
| 6 | Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . |
| 7 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 8 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the self-government of this country is in peril and , while I disagree with his domestic politics , he is right to point that out . |
| 9 | He is right to pursue this line . |
| 10 | Of course , in those situations where the buyer can and does accept part and reject part of the goods ( i.e. where section 30 applies or where the contract is severable , see paragraphs 11–07 and 11–08 above ) , he is entitled to recover any part of the price that he has paid in respect of the rejected part of the goods . |
| 11 | The Parish Council have asked me to find out if he is entitled to do this and , if there are any planning or highway restraints on what he may do . |
| 12 | I disagree with his refusal , although I realise that he is entitled to take that position . |
| 13 | Section 36 of the Partnership Act assists in this connection : ( 1 ) Where a person deals with a firm after a change in its constitution he is entitled to treat all apparent members of the old firm as still being members of the firm until he has notice of the change . |
| 14 | Thus , the use of the word " demise " will give rise to two implied covenants on the part of the landlord : namely , that he is entitled to grant some term in the demised property and that the tenant shall have quiet enjoyment of the demised property . |
| 15 | He is entitled to protect both of these : see Morris ( Herbert ) and Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571. 3.1 The employer 's special trade connections The employer is entitled only to protect his business against use of his special trade connections by others but not to protection from competition from his former employee : see the Morris ( Herbert ) case . |
| 16 | He is eager to cultivate such sales channels worldwide because he feels them to be an under-exploited source of revenue . |
| 17 | This means that if a person is threatening another 's property in such a way that he is likely to cause another to act in self defence , he commits no offence . |
| 18 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 19 | Therefore , he is likely to nominate those whose views seem most in line with his own , although there is no way a president can guarantee the direction of a justice 's decision and it is estimated that the President 's choices have backfired in a quarter of appointments . |
| 20 | The cricket chairman Brian Close is away on holiday but he is likely to face some testing questions on the 10th . |
| 21 | When , for instance , one official has to prepare proposals to harmonise VAT on second-hand goods ( which includes works of art ) he is likely to have little idea of the workings of an auction house . |
| 22 | The only rest he is likely to get this weekend is at Camp David . |
| 23 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 24 | This shows more inhumanity because he is willing to send another man to his death for no other reason that he is black and that he does not like him . |
| 25 | Surely he is ready to save those who honour him , and his saving presence will remain in our land . |
| 26 | Although he mentions it to me , he finds he is unable to display this aspect to men . |
| 27 | Above this size he is unable to maintain this rate of involvement . |
| 28 | But because of his deteriorating health , he is unable to keep any of these jobs long , and throughout much of the novel he is confined to his shack where his wife cares for him . |
| 29 | He submits that he can do this , seeing that , as is common ground , the money was originally paid into one of Glasgow 's bank accounts in London , but otherwise he is unable to produce any evidence in support of this contention . |
| 30 | He also knows that he is supposed to use all the information given . |