Example sentences of "[vb base] [that] he was [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some incidents in his later career suggest that he was inclined to act first and let his legal advisers sort out the formalities later . |
| 2 | Others say that he was unwilling to move while BNP remained in state hands . |
| 3 | I was quite sad to hear my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food say that he was prepared to sit in the negotiations for months . |
| 4 | Ali was so mean that he was unlikely to buy advertising space , even for a religious edict , and , anyway , he had clearly found Robert 's words so offensive that he had , so far , been incapable of repeating them to anyone . |
| 5 | This did not , however , mean that he was ready to relinquish his all-powerful position . |
| 6 | I imagine that that was one of the matters raised with the hon. Gentleman , and I hope that he was able to assure farmers of the splendid job that my noble Friend is doing for farming in Scotland . |
| 7 | He would read it , nod and announce that he was ready to make a concession . |
| 8 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |
| 9 | ‘ We think that he was first stunned by the blow on the head . ’ |