Example sentences of "[be] he [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 2 | Well what 's he supposed to do ? |
| 3 | Who 's he supposed to know like . |
| 4 | ‘ Is he certain to do so ? ’ |
| 5 | tax is unfair , and that it is a bad tax which works against the poor , or is he content to support the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Department of the Environment ? |
| 6 | The precise question here under consideration is , if the Secretary of State does not adopt the judicial view of the tariff , is he obliged to give reasons for departing from it ? |
| 7 | Is he er is he due to retire or |
| 8 | Not only is he fun to look at with his bright colours , he 's very durable too and more than able to withstand the very worst kind of punishment little ones are capable of dishing out ! |
| 9 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 10 | Is he wise to say , and make much of it , that people come up and tell him so ? |
| 11 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 12 | Nor is he likely to wind up the debate as I understand that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Darlington ( Mr. Fallon ) , or some other English Minister will do so . |
| 13 | That 's it , and where is he likely to feel most comfortable . |
| 14 | If Turgenev is a man of the 1840s ( which he is ) , what is he supposed to do about it ? |
| 15 | As for him having a permanent dwelling , where is he supposed to live ? |
| 16 | As for him having a permanent dwelling , where is he supposed to live ? |
| 17 | Is he supposed to go the opposite way ? |
| 18 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 19 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 20 | Is he willing to pay for them ? |
| 21 | Is he hard to live with or is not ? |
| 22 | 5 Why is he unable to go ? |
| 23 | Neither is he afraid to spend a fortune to back his judgement . |
| 24 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |
| 25 | Only in his own pieces ( all transcriptions of other composer 's works ) is he able to stretch himself to the outer limits of his technique . |
| 26 | Is he able to construct a coherent theory ? |
| 27 | No longer is he able to differentiate between fantasy and reality , Father Poole told himself . |
| 28 | Is he able to make an announcement about a review of the assisted area status for west Cumbria which was taken away from that area in the early 1980s ? |
| 29 | When is he able to come out ? |
| 30 | Schönhuber manoeuvred around the ‘ old Nazi ’ tag , while making plain that not only was he proud to have been in the Waffen SS , but that there was indeed something worthwhile that Germans could salvage from the Nazi era . |