Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the less one has the less he is tempted to extend the range of his needs indefinitely . |
| 2 | He is tempted to reinterpret the past in a way that makes it fit in more readily with the rendezvous at the small hotel . |
| 3 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If this is the cause , then the child will probably recognise the error quickly if he is asked to read the word . |
| 6 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |
| 7 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 8 | Maybe time does give it some perspective , he agrees , but he is determined to take the blame for the controversy it provoked . |
| 9 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 10 | How can the Prime Minister claim to be seeking the best deal for Britain when he is determined to get the worst conditions for British workers ? |
| 11 | add information to the report description to describe the action he is taking to resolve the problem . |
| 12 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 13 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps he is taking to encourage the increase of touring by arts companies . |
| 14 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 15 | Feeling that his first book was directed towards chefs and more experienced cooks , he is hoping to put the balance right . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 18 | Notice how far back he is leaning to stop the board burying too much . |
| 19 | The garments might be placed by his hemiplegic side , if there is no risk of him falling as he reaches for them , and if he is beginning to use the hemiplegic arm . |
| 20 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is trying to describe the way in which the world as finite is not self-sufficient . |
| 23 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 24 | Maybe he 'd love it , obviously he is trying to take the club forward . |
| 25 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 26 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 27 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 28 | If he were to hang on , he told Stamfordham , the nation would say : ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 29 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 30 | Here , an ex-governor makes much of the TV programmes he is launching to revitalise the Republican Party ; there , a senator finds himself , quite by chance , eating rubber chicken in both Iowa and New Hampshire . |