Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And James Herbert , another of Hodder 's biggest selling authors , is rumoured to be going the same way : he is said to be on the point of signing a two-book deal with HarperCollins worth £1.7m . |
| 2 | He is said to be in a critical condition . |
| 3 | He is believed to be in Dublin . |
| 4 | He is believed to be in his 50s . |
| 5 | The explanation for adult personality , in other words , is to be found in the individual 's first encounters with the world , at a time when he is thought to be in a highly impressionable state . |
| 6 | Police have yet to name the dead man but he is thought to be from the Grangetown area . |
| 7 | He is reported to be in the process of responding to offers of employment from other theatres in Ireland and across the water , and to be keen to return to the Lyric from time to time . |
| 8 | He 's said to be in a stable condition at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 9 | He 's said to be in his 50s , stocky wearing a beige jacket . |
| 10 | He 's said to be in a stable and comfortable condition . |
| 11 | They again fell against each other , their laughter mingling , and Victoria , her voice firm now , said , ‘ He 's bound to be on his way out , if he has n't gone already , and so go on up , do your duty and leave the rest to me . ’ |
| 12 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 13 | He 's expected to be off work for a few days but will be recalled for important Commons votes , including the Maastricht Treaty social chapter next Thursday . |
| 14 | He run very well last time , showed plenty of early and he 's going to be on his toes tonight , but anyway it 's Ashfield Charlie in trap two , the selection for the first leg of the yankee . |
| 15 | But Roxy er Roxy that was from his new C D Midnight Postcards and er he 's going to be at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal March the twenty eighth next year in Alfie , coming well ahead of it to tell us about it , and that 's going to be a blockbuster I think next year , and then goes on to Los Angeles . |
| 16 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 17 | He was said to be in good spirits , but this was assumed : he feared he would be denounced as a traitor on his return . |
| 18 | He was said to be in financial difficulty when he tried to blackmail Hillier in May 1991 . |
| 19 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 20 | He was said to be in a very distressed state . |
| 21 | He was said to be in a very distressed state . |
| 22 | Last night , he was said to be in a comfortable condition . |
| 23 | Last night , he was said to be in a comfortable condition . |
| 24 | He was said to be in a comfortable condition today , as he recovered in a hospital burns unit . |
| 25 | He was said to be in a critical condition yesterday after he was hit in the head and body . |
| 26 | He was said to be in a critical condition today . |
| 27 | He was determined to be under the same roof as his chapel . |
| 28 | Technically he was meant to be in bed . |
| 29 | Now he was reported to be at the Mamounia in order to work on a book entitled The Mighty and the Meek . |
| 30 | He died in Bethnal Green 14 July 1839 ; he was reputed to be worth about £300,000 , ‘ though he always appeared to be in poor circumstances ’ . |