Example sentences of "he [vb -s] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved . |
| 2 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 3 | The parent should listen quietly to this opinion , preferably with an open mind , trying to see things from the youngster 's point of view and should restate what she or he understands to be the youngster 's argument , so as to be sure of there being no misunderstanding . |
| 4 | These are John 's reactions on hearing what he thinks to be someone else in his apartment block . |
| 5 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 6 | His arguments , if they prove anything , prove not that the principle is wrong , but that , according to the applications he supposes to be made of it , it is misapplied . |
| 7 | This third body is disposed of , but as the porter returns he encounters the hunchback husband who he supposes to be the corpse returning yet one more time . |
| 8 | The Ordinatio assigned Italy to Lothar " if God wills that he lives to be our successor " ( c.17 ) , without mentioning Bernard . |
| 9 | Poststructuralists aspire to remove what they regard as the arbitrary distinctions between literature , criticism , theory , and philosophy , and Geoffrey Hartman has made it clear that he believes what he writes to be worthy of the esteem and attention normally given to ‘ creative ’ writing . |
| 10 | Second , he has to be a prolific print-maker , and the prints themselves , though perhaps individually rare , must collectively be in reasonably good supply . |
| 11 | His sight is improving but he has to be helped to cross roads . |
| 12 | And , purely to keep the story progressing , he has to be one of the laziest criminals in screen history , scattering clues with such recklessness that he seems subconsciously determined to be discovered . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything around playing has to be organised very carefully and he has to be mature in choosing the right time to play off the court . |
| 14 | He has to be heading for Holland , Germany or France … ’ |
| 15 | Until he can hold himself safely in the correct positions without increasing his spasticity when he is lying down , sitting , standing , or walking , he has to be helped to move in every situation . |
| 16 | He has to be able to sit upright in his chair using his trunk muscles , without pulling or pushing himself up using his unaffected arm . |
| 17 | He has to be able to reduce the tension ( technically tonus ) in his muscles before he can make controlled movements . |
| 18 | One important goal for the patient is walking , but he has to be ready before he tries . |
| 19 | When Milton is resting he is turned out during the day , but he has to be put in a field without much grass because he is incurably greedy and , given the opportunity , gets very fat in no time at all . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's just become more and more difficult to manage — he wanders , and he has to be kept clean … |
| 21 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 22 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 23 | ‘ If he has to be tied in a sack and dragged , I 'll have him down . ’ |
| 24 | But as Winch points out , Mill 's assumption separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , hence , in order for a person to act morally , he has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 25 | We spoke to Johnny Winter recently and he said he has to be really careful about what he listens to before getting on stage , in case it influences him too much . |
| 26 | Tennis star Boris Becker , who says he has to be happy to win , trains with girlfriend Barbara Feltus in Phuket , Thailand . |
| 27 | ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’ |
| 28 | The purpose is proved by question and answer if the defendant is driving or if he has to be interviewed later by a police officer . |
| 29 | And it 's just wonderful he has to feign emotions , he has to be coached on emotions . |
| 30 | But what you have to understand is that he 's the biggest thing in these villages , so he has to be the biggest thing in my life . |