Example sentences of "he is [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it must be stressed that it is a question of fact in each individual transaction , and the question one has to ask objectively in every single situation is whether the purchaser is merely selecting specific assets for the use in his own business or whether he is buying assets in order that he can carry on the business in succession to and in place of the vendor . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is why he is buying flowers and pictures . |
| 3 | He is transforming lives that are suffering from the corruption of the world , just like that widow and her sons . |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend think that that is an entirely happy precedent when he is discussing discounts which are fraught with anomaly , difficulty and contradiction ? |
| 5 | The reader who believes he is learning things about Imperial Ethiopia may be equally inclined to tell himself that this is a country of the mind , constructed on principles not very different from those of the Samuel Johnson who devised , for the Abyssinia of Rasselas , just representations of general truths and of a common humanity . |
| 6 | This flows from the assumptions made by the model of perfect competition that the individual entrepreneur maximizes his profits , that there is a price taker and that there is freedom of entry and exit from the industry in which he is producing goods . |
| 7 | Careful as he is to cultivate bankers , Mr Murdoch borrows to avoid being controlled . |
| 8 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 9 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 10 | Mr Nath has already raised £700 towards the cost of hospital bills and transport for two-year-old Constantin and now he is hoping others will join him in his fundraising . |
| 11 | ‘ He is still weak , but he is telling jokes , ’ he said . |
| 12 | He is building railways there . |
| 13 | He is considering ways ‘ to develop exhibitions beyond the permanent collection that will relate to different sectors of the population . |
| 14 | This time he is holding water-birds against a strange background apparently consisting of snakes ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 15 | Emlyn Hughes joins the mailing list this week , and he is fielding questions on the subject of gardening : |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman is not helping his right hon. Friend : he is making matters worse . |
| 17 | but as he is making plans to leave Town this week-end , I fear the result was no dice . |
| 18 | He is making pancakes . |
| 19 | He is playing Concertos that are not in the popular mainstream , and in the case of the Viola Concerto , not on his first instrument . |
| 20 | ‘ The visitor is made by the founder , and is the proper judge of the private laws of the college ; he is to determine offences against those laws . |
| 21 | The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation . |
| 22 | THE Dalai Lama , accepting the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday , warned he is reconsidering proposals to China to end the 40-year political struggle and occupation of his Himalayan homeland , Tibet . |
| 23 | He is shown polls indicating percentage satisfaction with the Prime Minister and the performance of the Government . |
| 24 | He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel . |
| 25 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
| 26 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , says he is backing calls by the United States for its allies to agree on a joint strategy to end the war in Bosnia . |
| 27 | Terry Johnson , general manager of Whitby Port Services , said he is having talks with three potential customers to replace the Norwegian Stream Line which is switching its operations to Killingholme , Humberside , at the end of the month , after ten years of using Whitby harbour . |
| 28 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what encouragement he is giving police forces to recruit and use traffic wardens for traffic control duties , particularly to meet seasonal needs . |