Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |
| 2 | Steering the RCN through the gravest provocation and confrontations — over industrial action , inadequacy of resources , management reorganisations , and the latest debacle over the implementation of a new clinical grading structure — he is strategically well placed to voice a considered opinion on the future of the profession in Britain as we enter the next decade . |
| 3 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 4 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 5 | Acads had cheerier news on the casualty front , when Rob Wainwright , their international back-row forward , attended training on Thursday , though he is not yet fit to play . |
| 6 | This is because he is not legally entitled to recover the cost incurred by carrying out the repairs necessary to remedy the defect that the surveyor failed to spot . |
| 7 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
| 8 | The artful honesty of this novel 's conclusion — with Eupolis impelled towards a moment of self-knowledge which he is not quite permitted to understand — certainly makes the book stand out . |
| 9 | He 's probably also going to do very well when he gets there . |
| 10 | He 's not even fit to wipe Wilkos arse ! ! |
| 11 | Now he 's decided he 's not just going to act , he 's going to make programmes , too . |
| 12 | But that that contradicted today , when he 's not only threatened to intervene against the Republics that have been attacking their minorities but erm , since he 's become Russian president he 's constantly threatened and the area of and you know denied it sort of national . |
| 13 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 14 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 15 | Bentley — He 's a very strange character , if you find his room open he 's often there waiting to lure you in . |
| 16 | But I believe until now he 's never even agreed to hold a full-scale exhibition of his work ? ’ |
| 17 | Now he 's never ever offered to pay that fifty odd quid . |
| 18 | He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt . |
| 19 | He said he wanted to toast a bridesmaid but there were n't any around so he was jolly well going to toast Gill instead . |
| 20 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 21 | Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising . |
| 22 | He was n't even prepared to admit to himself that he 'd had to work hard to keep her down . |
| 23 | A murder , and he was n't even allowed to play detective . |
| 24 | He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of . |
| 25 | He was quite a frightening animal to look at , with his sharp white fangs gleaming against his black muzzle , but he was n't really threatening to bite a piece out of Angela — only wanting to play with her . |
| 26 | Yet Proust insisted , himself , in a letter to Gide , that he was incapable of narrating anything in which he was not primarily seeking to grasp a general truth . |
| 27 | A member of the 1868 Royal Sanitary Commission and a vigorous promoter of public health as Mayor of Salisbury , he was not fundamentally opposed to state medicine . |
| 28 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 29 | Raistrick 's prime interest was in the biochemistry of moulds , and he was not particularly aiming to isolate antibacterial agents from them . |
| 30 | Though he was not yet prepared to admit it , he had tried and failed to enter the realm of marriage . |