Example sentences of "he [is] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also says that the pressure the expectation on him is greater this year but he 's learning to live with it … |
| 2 | I do n't think he is all that forceful really , despite the aura of brooding presence he can show when he wants to be impressive . |
| 3 | He is correct that 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock is uninterested in finding a visionary ‘ big idea ’ for the party ; he is convinced that Labour 's values remain popular . |
| 5 | And within 10 and 15 years , he is convinced that public opinion will swing back in favour of the mainframe . |
| 6 | He is convinced that abortion is evil and that the historic Lords ruling will open the floodgates to mercy killings and euthanasia . |
| 7 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 8 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 9 | Although the distributor actually purchases goods from the manufacturer to resell on his own account , he is much more than just another customer . |
| 10 | I hope that he is better that day than he was today . |
| 11 | he is nearer that way than us |
| 12 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 13 | Ye gods , even when he is awake all he ever says is let's sleep on it … . ’ |
| 14 | He is right that manufacturing exports have increased by nearly three quarters since 1981 . |
| 15 | Now he is half that weight . |
| 16 | A searcher reaches the second level of understanding when he is satisfied that Christianity answers the first of these questions . |
| 17 | Where no charge is registered , the registrar , if otherwise prepared to accept the application , may well be prepared to register the restriction without the land certificate provided he is satisfied that severance has taken place ( see Ruoff and Roper , Registered Conveyancing , Looseleaf edn , Sweet and Maxwell , 1991 , 39.21 ) . |
| 18 | ( He is another former Head of the Prime Minister 's policy Unit and a key figure in the Institute of Directors . ) |
| 19 | But he is worried that track charges will form too large a part of the total costs . |
| 20 | He 's due any second . |
| 21 | He 's due any moment , is n't he ? |
| 22 | Perhaps he 's serious all the time . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's all that . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's all that . |
| 25 | He 's huggy this one , not kissy . |
| 26 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |
| 27 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 28 | ‘ Even if you take the example of the Western , and key Western icons like Clint Eastwood , ’ Wood says , ‘ you can see the films responding to social attitudes in the movement from the early spaghetti westerns to last year 's Unforgiven , where you still have the recognisable Clint Eastwood character , but he 's much more complex , more uncertain about things — about killing , about his motives , the whole notion of what constitutes a hero . ’ |
| 29 | Whatever happens , boxing must resist the temptations to relapse into vaudeville , a prospect raised by the $20 million offer for Bowe to fight George Foreman in Peking if he 's victorious this evening . |
| 30 | once he 's asleep that 's it |