Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 2 | Under the tutelage of John Ruskin [ q.v. ] he joined the ‘ Hinksey roadmenders ’ , and through him was later introduced to Octavia Hill [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 4 | " I take it you would be happier if your boy was effeminate than if he were somehow connected to some Irish political group . " |
| 5 | He is firmly committed to the principle that Drama can stand on its own as an academic subject . |
| 6 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 7 | Here , according to Acts , he is officially admitted to the Nazarean Party . |
| 8 | He is probably going to the château . |
| 9 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
| 10 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 11 | Of course , he is well known to everyone in the House and to many people outside . |
| 12 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 13 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 14 | He is also believed to be embarrassed that one person should be earning so much when the recession and heavy unemployment has badly affected Coventry and the surrounding area . |
| 15 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 16 | Erm there 's another Econ Soc the Economic Society putting on a lecture at five o'clock on Wednesday er in A forty two and the topic there is What 's Happening to the Distribution of Income in Britain and he is also talking to the Public Sector . |
| 17 | He is also thought to be the same as the Asclepiodatus who was patricius of Provence , and was the recipient of letters from Gregory the Great in 599 and 601 . |
| 18 | He is also thought to be considering bringing members of the public into every school inspection team . |
| 19 | He is also told to , ‘ never cease your labour , your care and diligence , until you have done all that lieth in you , according to your bounden duty , to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge , unto … knowledge of God ’ . |
| 20 | He is even said to be at liberty to play golf . |
| 21 | He is even signed to a UK-based record label , Invasion , and is currently touring British rock venues with support from wry , introspective folkies Balloon . |
| 22 | The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT . |
| 23 | If the sentence-grammarian wishes to make claims about the ‘ acceptability ’ of a sentence in determining whether the strings produced by his grammar are correct sentences of the language , he is implicitly appealing to contextual considerations . |
| 24 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 25 | He is closely connected to both the lovers so , in this book too , we have a chance to see the situation from both sides , although it 's harder to get involved with the main characters and really understand their thoughts , feelings and motivations . |
| 26 | 3 HE is romantically linked to a princess who is variously called Daisy , Mushroom and Toadstool in different games . |
| 27 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 28 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 29 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 30 | For as the election draws ever-nearer , he is being asked to make what for him must be the ultimate sacrifice : from time to time , he is actually having to be nasty . |