Example sentences of "he [verb] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 2 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 3 | From obscure origins he rose to be the best-known Wiltshire clothier of his day , famous in the 1540s for his use of the buildings of Malmesbury Abbey as industrial workshops . |
| 4 | He wants to be the real power there , rather than a minority , ’ the aide said . |
| 5 | Only in Petrushka is he seen to be the principal player in the action and even then only the actor-dancer 's complete commitment to the whole and complete loyalty to Fokine 's design make him dominate the action . |
| 6 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 7 | The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course . |
| 8 | He was an outspoken opponent of episcopal pretensions and a staunch upholder of what he believed to be the ancient rights of the monastery of Evesham . |
| 9 | His method is straightforward enough : examining what he takes to be the central claims and assumptions of Conservative political philosophy , he proceeds to dismantle them one by one and , having demonstrated to his satisfaction that no Conservative tenet can withstand analytical criticism , declares that ‘ Conservatism … has , in the end , nothing to say for itself ’ . |
| 10 | In responding to a plea for help from Spain 's Popular Front government , Stalin was thus pursuing what he perceived to be the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | ‘ No , he appears to be the only one with any sense , ’ Ellie said drily . |
| 12 | O odd occasion we 'll come across people you know who yes he seems to be the right person and then somebody else turns up to do |
| 13 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 14 | This is fighting talk , and suggests his fond memories of Maurras and the Action Française , but it was only talk — perhaps it was Eliot 's way of enlivening what he thought to be the muted tone of discussion in England ; perhaps it was also a method of inspiring his colleagues at the Moot whom he called " companions in affliction " , intellectuals or refugees who were on the periphery of events to which there was no foreseeable end . |
| 15 | If he went to be the head gardener of another greenhouse and did another ten years teaching among the geraniums , what species of hothouse plant might result ? |
| 16 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 17 | Yet he proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time . |
| 18 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 19 | Whenever he 's away , Fred says he takes with him a Gucci washbag packed with what he considers to be the essential medication for the business traveller . |
| 20 | The explosiveness of these articles by Nizan is doubtless explained as much by Nizan 's anger at the reporting restrictions imposed by the Garde des Sceaux on sub judice matters affecting fascist infiltration in France , as it is by his visceral fear and hatred of what he considers to be the terrible consequences of the spread of fascism within his homeland . |
| 21 | In addition to the normal Winning Ideas awards Dr Matthewson will select what he considers to be the top three suggestions . |
| 22 | Said he wanted to be the pretty one for a change . |
| 23 | By writing this story virtually as a film script and having it turned into a film very soon afterwards , Franco made it clear that Raza also represented what he wanted to be the popular , mass vision of him . |
| 24 | SIR Alec Guinness is probably the world 's best known actor , yet he claims to be the only one who can walk down a street unrecognised . |
| 25 | Mr Finlay 's main concern about bookshop events was what he considered to be the unequal sharing of costs . |
| 26 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
| 27 | Professor Kellert used the results of his survey to identify what he considered to be the main animal characteristics that guided North American preferences . |
| 28 | Following the organic method Spengler delineated what he considered to be the significant ideas and symbols of the spring , summer , autumn and winter phases of each culture . |
| 29 | In 1904 the Daily Mail published his campaign against what he considered to be the unjust imprisonment of Adolf Beck which , it was claimed , was partly responsible for the Criminal Appeal Act , 1907 . |
| 30 | Once more Bukharin dwelt upon what he considered to be the unique character of the Russian revolution : that it was a combination of workers revolution and peasant war , which implied the need for a long-term alliance between the two classes . |