Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland . |
| 2 | I understand that he is likely to bring forward proposals in a ten-minute Bill in the not-too-distant future and I will listen to that debate with great interest . |
| 3 | He lives in a solo world where clearly he is able to build uninterrupted fantasies . |
| 4 | By doing this , he is able to show different sides of a thought or feeling , building up the sense-impressions that cluster around it . |
| 5 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 6 | He also explains that the reason he is happy to accept minimum portfolios of £25,000 is because ‘ time and time again , small investors who come to us are pleased with the service and come back five or ten years later ’ , having inherited substantial sums . |
| 7 | SHY tax inspector Felix will miss out on £50,000 this month — because he 's scared to make public appearances in case the bosses at his day job recognise him . |
| 8 | Although very weak , he was anxious to discuss technical matters , among which were possible revisions to Chapter 6 . |
| 9 | Shortly before he was due to take mock exams , he was at a geography lesson which was interrupted by a teacher calling for his services in a football match . |
| 10 | He was eager to imitate other rulers , and not least the king of kings himself , in continuance of the tradition which likened earthly kings to Christ . |
| 11 | He was inclined to make vicious remarks about Henrietta and Norman , some of which Norman got to hear . |
| 12 | On a less theoretical level , it is also true that his expressions of anti-semitism occur in the Twenties or just before , when he was inclined to make misogynistic remarks also ; it was a period when his own personality threatened to break apart , and it seems likely that his distrust of Jews and women was the sign of an uneasy and vulnerable temperament in which aggression and insecurity were compounded . |
| 13 | On Feb. 4 , Iranian President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani told a press conference in Tehran that he had sent " an idea " for peace to Saddam Hussein , that he was awaiting a reply , and that he was prepared to hold direct talks with Iraqi and US leaders in an effort to end the war . |
| 14 | He was prepared to concede non-essential points of terminology , such as referring to ‘ priests ’ as ‘ presbyters ’ ; his hope was ‘ to see controversies end with concord and love on all sides , . |
| 15 | Now he was ready to see daily miracles wrought by the relics of St Stephen , recently discovered and brought to Africa , and to make use of them in his pastoral work among his congregations . |
| 16 | He was apt to use biological metaphors to explain the workings of organisations . |
| 17 | Indeed he was apt to take violent prejudices against certain men and women in public life with whom he was not personally acquainted . |
| 18 | The complaint was not new : in 858 , rebels had accused Charles of extorting " whatever the Vikings had left " : again , Charles 's conduct in the ensuing years — and notably the 864 recoinage itself — suggests that once he had re-established his political grip , he was able to reimpose fiscal demands . |
| 19 | From the same ministry contracts he was able to elicit official references — on departmental letter-heading and addressed ‘ to whom it may concern ’ — to bolster his standing with the suppliers and with other customers . |
| 20 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
| 21 | In the late 1880s , he was able to make major improvements to this pen , and was to be found assembling them every evening in his hotel room . |
| 22 | Two of his nephews commanded armies in France and his wealth was so vast that he was able to make substantial loans to the Exchequer at a high rate of interest , which was not very popular . |
| 23 | He was able to satisfy Royalist investigators that an out-payment which he had made in connection with the king 's trial and execution had simply been a routine matter , in no way implicating him in the actual regicide . |
| 24 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 25 | Other evidence for Alaric II 's reign suggests that he was concerned to establish good relations with the catholic Gallo-Romans in the years immediately before " Vouillé " . |
| 26 | Although he was more concerned with the general evolutionary history of mankind than in analysing societies as self-sustaining wholes , here he was busy making functional associations almost in spite of himself ! |
| 27 | Beshari said later that he was willing to send Libyan judges to Washington , London or Paris to discuss the case . |