Example sentences of "he be [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 2 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 3 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 4 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 5 | He is understood to be suffering from exhaustion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now he is hoping to be picked for the match against Spain in the Canary Islands to give his career a real boost . |
| 9 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He suffered a stroke , but I believe he is said to be recovering . ’ |
| 11 | The quiet life obviously palled : he is said to be making a comeback . |
| 12 | He is said to be aged between 29-30 , around 6ft tall and of slim build with a thin face , dark eyebrows , narrow eyes and long narrow nose . |
| 13 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 14 | He is said to be devastated at having to dispose of the famous art works and family silver and furniture . |
| 15 | In the meanwhile , he is said to be hurt and shocked by the hostility of the reaction to the strategy proposals . |
| 16 | He is said to be blaming ‘ Unionists ’ intransigence ’ for creating an atmosphere of hopelessness in City Hall . |
| 17 | He is believed to be carrying a hand gun and should not be approached , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He is thought to be armed with a handgun . |
| 19 | He is thought to be armed with a handgun . |
| 20 | Where the plaintiff has been found to have been contributorily negligent , his damages will be reduced by the proportion that he is found to be to blame for his damage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is reported to be negotiating the complete withdrawal of the 1,500 Soviet military advisers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If an accused person hears that he is going to be sentenced to one year in jail , it is argued that it would be distinctly unfair for a prosecutor to appeal . |
| 25 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 28 | No matter how cleverly the flyweight boxes he is going to be stuffed . |
| 29 | HE IS going to be held up by his technique because he reverse-pivots with a mega-weak grip . |
| 30 | He imagines he is going to be arrested and whisked off to Siberia . |