Example sentences of "he be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception . |
| 32 | He is conducting a low profile marketing campaign with Lane Fox at a general price level of £1.25 million , depending on how much land the buyer wants with it . |
| 33 | Now the challenge is complete , he is considering a close shave , probably in the name of charity . |
| 34 | My hon. Friend will realise that his statement on corporation tax for small companies needs slight adjustment and I am sure that he is considering a major adjustment on capital gains , which I understand is one of the taxes where the cost of collection exceeds the revenue . |
| 35 | However , he is collecting a small , faithful following . |
| 36 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez : a 33-year-old cigar factory technician , he is serving a three-year sentence for advocating free elections . |
| 37 | Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved : a 74-year-old retired civil servant' he is serving a three-year sentence for ‘ criticizing the president . ’ |
| 38 | SUH KYUNG-WON : a 55-year-old parliamentarian , he is serving a 10-year prison sentence for making an unauthorized visit to North Korea and meeting North Korean officials . |
| 39 | He is serving a 10-year jail sentence . |
| 40 | Nijazi Beqa : an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo , aged 29 , he is serving a four-year prison sentence in Dubrav prison near Istok . |
| 41 | Mohamed Abbad : a 37-year-old student and ex-president of the Union Nationale des Etudiants Marocains ( UNEM ) , National Union of Moroccan Students , he is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Safi Prison . |
| 42 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 43 | If that is true , he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end . |
| 44 | The narrative base to this section ( Sukenick 's visit to Israel ) represents a journey to a country of spiritual origins as if he is seeking a lost unity antecedent to the modern state of division . |
| 45 | That , and the need to earn a living , are the reasons behind his desire to stay in the US where he is seeking a green card as a full-time athlete having graduated from Stanford University last year . |
| 46 | he is seeking a large railway society to be custodians of his vast range of pictures , which will still be made available to the general public . |
| 47 | The author may or may not be aware of it , but he is stating a biblical principle . |
| 48 | He is holding a round copper tray under one arm like a subaltern with his cap at a passing-out parade . |
| 49 | So here I publish a picture of him ten years ago when he was Junior Minister he is enjoying a marvellous a party at London 's Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 50 | After setting the scene this use of description slightly declines unless he is introducing a new character or scene . |
| 51 | He is considered a good listener and a effective operator . |
| 52 | This fate might be waived if he is considered a good influence on the other dealers . |
| 53 | In Washington he is considered an ineffective legislator and not a nice man ( his latest scrape involved the allegation that he had sexually harassed a Peace Corps worker while on a jaunt to Africa ) . |
| 54 | That 's why he is fielding a strong reserve side at Liverpool tonight . |
| 55 | If he is successful he is awarded a coloured sash and allowed to progress to advanced training sections . |
| 56 | By the conceit he is making a serious point : his poetry is repetitive because the virtues of the Friend are semper eadem . |
| 57 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
| 58 | Remarking that Dostoevsky 's The Idiot does not altogether ‘ come off ’ , he is making a coherent and discussable point , whether or not one accepts it . |
| 59 | He is not claiming that representations have their causal significance only in some societies or in some epochs , but he is making a general assumption about psychological functioning and , thereby , about human nature . |
| 60 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |