Example sentences of "he is [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is anxious to improve the image of Arabs on television and show them as sophisticated , gentle and friendly . |
| 2 | Now he is anxious to join the priesthood . " |
| 3 | Back from holiday yesterday , he is due to meet the board . |
| 4 | May we have an early debate on foreign affairs and aid and on the encouragement that should be given to President Serrano , who now says that he is keen to see the problem sorted out ? |
| 5 | But he is keen to join the King 's African Rifles and go off and fight . |
| 6 | Such splendour is not for most of us , either as patrons or purchasers ; but , if he is content to appreciate the diligence of the scribe rather than luxuriate in the extravagancies of the illuminator , the collector can assemble single leaves from a wide variety of manuscripts at modest cost . |
| 7 | Section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 makes it clear that the decision as to release on licence is for the Home Secretary , although he is obliged to consult the judiciary . |
| 8 | Just as the setter is legally obligated to spend fully at the reversion level ( should his proposal fail ) , so he is obliged to spend the whole of the grant in addition to the reversion level of spending ( an assumption consistent with the institutional arrangements of some states in the USA ) . |
| 9 | When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale . |
| 10 | He is right to stress the importance of close security co-operation between the two Governments . |
| 11 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend and he is right to recognise the importance of the announcement . |
| 12 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 13 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 15 | Apart from that situation , if the buyer has paid and the goods are not delivered , he is entitled to recover the price because he has received no consideration for it , section 54 . |
| 16 | On the other hand if particular property is shown to belong to one partner , then only he is entitled to take the benefit of increased worth . |
| 17 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 18 | He is likely to know the way . |
| 19 | He is likely to know the way . |
| 20 | Though Stark does not seem to share Scheler 's ambitious project completely , he is willing to import the essentialist and absolutist components of Scheler 's work , derived from their shared Catholicism ( Hamilton 1974 : 87 ) . |
| 21 | The sponsor says he is willing to see the project through even though it may be a lengthy one . |
| 22 | In the process , according to the common law , one party indicates his interest in the transaction ( invitation to treat ) , the other party then proposes the terms upon which he is willing to complete the transaction ( offer ) , and the first party then indicates his agreement to those terms ( acceptance ) whereupon the contract comes into existence . |
| 23 | He is reluctant to use the bank 's funds to subsidise the balance of payments deficits of eastern Europe , nor to restructure industrial sectors not yet ready for privatisation , in energy safety and military conversion . |
| 24 | Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally , he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic |
| 25 | Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally , he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic |
| 26 | But he is ready to accept the need for air power to be brought into play against the Serbs to enforce the UN no fly zone over Bosnia . |
| 27 | Mr. Richards rightly does not deal with the judge 's decision as such , but he is unable to uphold the judge 's ruling for two reasons which can be stated at once . |
| 28 | The effect of Eliot 's reading about primitive religion is clear in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where , as in his Wundt reviews , he is concerned to stress the importance of the sexual element in religion . |
| 29 | He is able to take the weakness of our present experience and say to our hearts : ‘ Look , do n't despise yourself . |
| 30 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |