Example sentences of "he be [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can he be expected to run the country when half his time is spent waiting for people who never turn up ? |
| 2 | He has n't any other commitments and he would ask that erm he be allowed to pay the fine at the rate of twenty pounds per week . |
| 3 | Ace thought the Doctor sounded as if he were trying to coax a dog to do a trick . |
| 4 | Damian sat down slowly in his place , completely silenced by the rebuke , staring at Gawain as if he were trying to understand the thought-processes which had led up to it . |
| 5 | Hawk always felt ill at ease in these conversations , as if he were forced to read the lines of a savage redskin in a Hollywood film . |
| 6 | The sense of effort in his conversation staggered her , and she watched him with pity , for he laboured as though he were to try to write a sonnet , and all the while the conversation was predestined , unnecessary , a mere coin of payment . |
| 7 | He began to whistle beneath his breath , a soft sound without a tune , as if he were attempting to imitate the rushing of wind through trees . |
| 8 | So the less one has the less he is tempted to extend the range of his needs indefinitely . |
| 9 | He is tempted to reinterpret the past in a way that makes it fit in more readily with the rendezvous at the small hotel . |
| 10 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 11 | If he is asked to count the buttons on his shirt or see how many colours are in the pattern of his sweater , then a look in the mirror might help with this too . |
| 12 | What if he is asked to review a paper of ours someday ? ’ |
| 13 | If this is the cause , then the child will probably recognise the error quickly if he is asked to read the word . |
| 14 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |
| 15 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 16 | Maybe time does give it some perspective , he agrees , but he is determined to take the blame for the controversy it provoked . |
| 17 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 18 | add information to the report description to describe the action he is taking to resolve the problem . |
| 19 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps he is taking to encourage the increase of touring by arts companies . |
| 20 | Feeling that his first book was directed towards chefs and more experienced cooks , he is hoping to put the balance right . |
| 21 | As it is difficult for people to get together , he is hoping to establish a telephone conference system . |
| 22 | Muller will watch from the stand knowing he is destined to face the England B team at Bristol on Saturday in preparation for a confrontation of which he could once only dream of : ‘ Facing Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott at Twickenham . ’ |
| 23 | If one doctor treats condition ‘ y ’ with therapy ‘ x ’ , he may observe clinical improvement in the absence of any real treatment effect ; if this experience repeats itself , he is destined to become an enthusiast for therapy ‘ x ’ . |
| 24 | Notice how far back he is leaning to stop the board burying too much . |
| 25 | He is struggling to overcome a thigh injury and has seen his form slump as Liverpool suffer their worst start for 39 years . |
| 26 | Howard also finds with pleasure that he is beginning to speak a language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office , even to Phil — schuppen structure , Pennine ‘ windows ’ , and Dinaride outliers . |
| 27 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 28 | If I understand him correctly , he is proceeding to make an argument for putting Polaris and its equipment into a bargaining regime with the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | In the following passage , Michael Polanyi describes the changes in a medical student 's perceptual experience when he is taught to make a diagnosis by inspecting an X-ray picture . |
| 30 | Kewenig has chosen to use his role in Berlin to impose his vision on the higher education — for example , he is refusing to allow the polytechnics to duplicate the work of the universities and lengthen their three year courses to compare with the universities . |