Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the investigating officer , using his own personal radio , or the officer accompanying him is then usually able to check those details almost immediately on the police national computer . |
| 2 | But he were n't even supposed to have it , so |
| 3 | Irritable but excited , as though he were only just able to hold something important under control . |
| 4 | Though Cash is a former champion , he is no longer willing to commit himself full-time to the game . |
| 5 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 6 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 7 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 8 | Edit , cut , amend , interpolate or transpose what he will , there is — he began to realize — a dimension beyond him which he is not now able to reach or to shift . |
| 9 | In argument about the treatment of the script — these things process in ordered stages — he is just as likely to enlist Bergman as Schwarzenegger as supporting evidence . |
| 10 | The farm worker , in many respects , has yet to achieve his place in the sun , but he is also less willing to accept the low status which the rest of society seems to offer him . |
| 11 | Now he is even more determined to carry on racing . |
| 12 | ‘ If anything , he is even less inclined to learn than before … he just runs wild in the garden for ten hours a day . ‘ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if a creditor , with grounds for suspecting that a company is in financial difficulties , makes a search he is all too likely to find that no recent annual returns or accounts have been filed . |
| 14 | ‘ He is far too big to swat , ’ she thought . |
| 15 | If the manager can dress up the equipment as a way to increase efficiency , then he is far more likely to win his case than if he presents the hardware as a means of winning a political battle . |
| 16 | He is so seldom able to stay in London . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , at common law , it is better for the seller if he is not fixed with actual knowledge of such contracts , since he is then more likely to escape liability for consequential loss suffered by the buyer if the seller 's default prevents the buyer from fulfilling his obligations under those contracts . |
| 18 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 19 | Finally , while he is indeed very careful to underline the distinctiveness and uniqueness of Jesus and of Christianity , do hidden thorns lurk in his description of Christianity itself as ‘ a religion ’ which can be classified along with other ‘ religions ’ ? |
| 20 | Though he is too politically cautious to admit it in public , Mr Reilly knows he needs taxes as a weapon in the environmental arsenal , even if they are disguised under another label . |
| 21 | Ruggia 's elbows no longer scrape the tarmac , but he is still stunningly spectacular to behold on a 500 |
| 22 | Having only recently regained employment he says he is still too poor to buy one . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Balding said : ‘ The governor is looking at both races though he is still more likely to run on Saturday . ’ |
| 24 | This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted . |
| 25 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 26 | Whitehall sources believe he is much more likely to have been concerned with such humdrum matters as integrating inter-departmental communications to prepare the ground for Civil Service computerization . |
| 27 | He 's just too busy to pay for his fees . |
| 28 | By law he 's not even obliged to give them that as something as posh as that or smart as that . |
| 29 | He 's only too anxious to 'ave me there , ’ answered his brother . |
| 30 | ‘ Mick sometimes takes off in the wagon , but he 's only too pleased to get back to Chigwell . |