Example sentences of "he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is firmly committed to the principle that Drama can stand on its own as an academic subject . |
| 2 | He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues . |
| 3 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 4 | An RUC officer said : ‘ He is regularly stopped at road checks by our patrols . |
| 5 | Kinnaird , who is chairing the seminar , says he is regularly asked to find a woman for a senior management job ‘ all other things being equal ’ . |
| 6 | From 1266 onwards he is regularly described as magister in official records , indicating that he too was recognized as a rabbi within the Jewish community . |
| 7 | Here , according to Acts , he is officially admitted to the Nazarean Party . |
| 8 | ‘ He is lost to you ; he is utterly bewitched ! |
| 9 | But the position from which he is today assessed rests on precarious , even quaint , over-simplifications . |
| 10 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 11 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 12 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 13 | Bowden firmly believes that the Irish record pollack could fall this season from one of the wrecks he is presently working over , and these recent successes augur well for the future . |
| 14 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 15 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 16 | He is equally unforthcoming about how he gets written out of Neighbours ; Joe Mangle will be no more in the New Year , but he wo n't reveal how . |
| 17 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 18 | whether he is adequately insured ; |
| 19 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 20 | He is not suggesting that it is ‘ thought ’ that is the main determining force . |
| 21 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 22 | When Hilton talks about meditation , therefore , he is not using the word as a Christian would use it today . |
| 23 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 24 | Now the medical association are taking the Argentinian , Miguel Pereira , to court because he is not authorised to practise in Chile , and the country 's flyweight champion and former world title challenger , Alli Galvez , has begun a hunger strike to defend his right to work . |
| 25 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 26 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 27 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 28 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 29 | He is a special category of senior civil servant whom a minister can send into temporary retirement and replace with another if he is not felt to share the minister 's party political affiliation . |
| 30 | ‘ He is not acting in the best interests of national heritage . |