Example sentences of "he [is] [vb pp] [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is understood to be suffering from exhaustion . |
| 2 | He is understood to be pressing ahead with the rest of the agenda set by his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , including a white paper proposing less use of imprisonment for non-violent offenders . |
| 3 | He is understood to be siding with ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey in backing the England bid , knowing he is a leading candidate to next summer become the first non-English chairman of world cricket 's governing body . |
| 4 | ‘ He suffered a stroke , but I believe he is said to be recovering . ’ |
| 5 | The quiet life obviously palled : he is said to be making a comeback . |
| 6 | He is said to be blaming ‘ Unionists ’ intransigence ’ for creating an atmosphere of hopelessness in City Hall . |
| 7 | He is believed to be carrying a hand gun and should not be approached , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 9 | He is reported to be negotiating the complete withdrawal of the 1,500 Soviet military advisers . |
| 10 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 11 | A person is entitled to act for the protection of livestock if either the livestock or the land on which it is belongs to him or to any person under whose express or implied authority he is acting ; and he is deemed to be acting for their protection if and only if , either : |
| 12 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 13 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 14 | he 's bound to be coming in and wanting to be starting that job |
| 15 | Okay , it might be fun watching John McConnell chasing after Michael when he 's meant to be marking Morton and Gary Peebles putting the shackles on Morton while Michael runs free … |
| 16 | He says he 's thought to be carrying a pump action shotgun and may now be a traveeling criminal . |
| 17 | Now the police are looking for him again — he 's thought to be heading back to Milton Keynes after running away on a visit to court in London . |