Example sentences of "he is [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is noted in Treasury records from 1671 as a member of a number of official commissions , notably as a commissioner for appeals in excise . |
| 2 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 3 | Among Herak 's alleged victims were eight Muslim women who he is charged with raping and murdering . |
| 4 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 5 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 6 | Cam is denied the colour and glamour of Barbados as he is kept at work on a tally of the cargo as it is landed : later , a talk with the captain helps him to see this and other causes for resentment in a different light . |
| 7 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 8 | Perhaps this is because his problem is not a sociological one ; he is engaged in polemic rather than social theory and his work is built around an apocalyptic vision of the future of capitalism rather than a series of questions about social phenomena . |
| 9 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 10 | He is bowed in light , winged in a blaze of ghost : |
| 11 | If the firm does not know whether its counterparty is acting as principal or intermediary , then it is clear that , even if he is acting as intermediary , his client is unidentified . |
| 12 | As indicated , where no commission is charged and the broker is acting honestly , clear disclosure of the fact that he is acting as principal is sufficient . |
| 13 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 14 | Against the possibility that the acquiring member fails to extend the offer , the following remedy can be provided for : If the Acquiring Member shall fail to serve a notice or make an offer in accordance with Article … ( or , if and to the extent that the offer is accepted , the Acquiring Member shall fail to complete the purchase of any shares pursuant to the offer ) he ( and any member with whom he is acting in concert as provided in Article … ) shall cease to have any rights to vote or to dividends in respect of all the shares held by him and the Directors may where relevant refuse to register the transfer of the shares acquired by the Acquiring Member which give rise to the obligations under Article … and may require the Acquiring Member to serve a Transfer Notice in respect of all or any of the shares held by him . |
| 15 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 16 | Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’ |
| 17 | In looking at people he is looking at profit potential and the attitudes and skills relating to that . |
| 18 | It is also important that the teacher is quite familiar with the electronic equipment he is using in order to get the best results from his efforts . |
| 19 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | ‘ I think that in six or seven months I 'll be much more competitive and able to do more justice to myself , ’ he said , adding that his current form in matches fell well below the standard he is reaching in practice . |
| 21 | He is separated from wife Becky and their baby son . |
| 22 | A good performer on the Flat , Vintage Crop won the Cesarewitch at Newmarket last October on his previous trip over from Ireland , but he is bedevilled by muscle problems in his back and has very limited hurdling experience . |
| 23 | Here he is jumping for joy . |
| 24 | PECKINPAH 'S LAST masterpiece , with James Coburn gloomily remembering , as he is shot to death , how he betrayed his values by tracking down free spirit Kris Kristofferson . |
| 25 | He too must drive off rivals once his older patron is gone if he is to remain in possession of his inherited females . |
| 26 | While he is speaking about child deaths , will he confirm that if vehicles travelled at 20 mph , only one child in 20 would be killed ? |
| 27 | He is speaking in response to their grumbling . |
| 28 | When he meets with the systems team to discuss the network , he is striving for success . |
| 29 | We may remember the unusual play on Hornblower 's self-distrustful temperament in Hornblower and the Atropos , when as the official organiser of Nelson 's funeral procession down the Thames he is beset by disaster . |
| 30 | Like all Ministers , the Home Secretary must maintain the Prime Minister 's confidence if he is to continue in office . |