Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the problems he will face is the variety of languages spoken on the island . |
| 32 | The last thing he will do is reveal these " price " objectives , never declaring his mandated 4 per cent maximum to the other side . |
| 33 | " It would have been immensely preferable for my return to be accomplished by the [ legal ] process , " de Gaulle told Dulac , but added cryptically : " Tell General Salan that what he has done and what he will do is for the good of France . " |
| 34 | What he will do is lend you one gram on account . |
| 35 | According to one story , the Shahs announcement that he will leave is only a bluff , and soon the Army will strike . |
| 36 | The unit in which he will live is within the hospital grounds , and was most carefully prepared and equipped . |
| 37 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 38 | The aircraft he will use is an unusual one . |
| 39 | Similarly , David Hackett Fischer maintains that growing old ‘ is an experience profoundly different today from what it was two or three centuries ago ’ , although the only explanation he can offer is one grounded in modernization theory . |
| 40 | Having perfected this petulant stance , all he can do is reiterate it — with a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the onset of self-parody : ‘ Stop Me if You Think You 've Heard This One Before ’ , ‘ Sweet and Tender Hooligan ’ , where the chorus is simply ‘ et cetera , et cetera ’ … |
| 41 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 42 | All he can do is resort to his native cunning and to prayer . |
| 43 | And the worst thing he can do is follow their advice . |
| 44 | All he can do is moan with pain . |
| 45 | The least he can do is respond immediately with a carefully worded personal letter . |
| 46 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 47 | It turns out that the best he can do is to form his expectation of and in accordance with the following formulae : where |
| 48 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 49 | what he can do is have something when he gets up , rather than the old |
| 50 | All he can remember is a green dragon and a pool of blood . |
| 51 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 52 | Wilkos recent statements about having to sell players before he can buy is just the number of players he has … not that we have nt got the money . |
| 53 | She added : ‘ The fact that he can write is a good sign . |
| 54 | In the eighteenth century Boswell describes his attack of gonorrhoea , which is complicated by an attack of epididymo-orchitis , and , after a miserable six weeks of self-imposed confinement at home , rejoices that he is cured because all he can see is a slight ‘ gleet ’ which he is happy to ignore . |
| 55 | ‘ Look at the fly ; all he can feel , all he can see is the table . |
| 56 | She ends up sitting on him , facing the small window from where the children can now be heard playing , so that ail he can see is her lean and sculpted back , the ridge of her spine showing like knuckles on a fist . |
| 57 | Gunn is expressing what he can see is a completely irrational attraction . |
| 58 | But for farmer Charles Peers the amount of straw he can sell is just a fraction of what 's left over after each field is harvested . |
| 59 | All he can hear is a voice inside him saying , ‘ Just look at his work . |
| 60 | Since the particles emitted by a black hole come from a region of which the observer has very limited knowledge , he can not definitely predict the position or the velocity of a particle or any combination of the two ; all he can predict is the probabilities that certain particles will be emitted . |