Example sentences of "he be [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is understood to be suffering from exhaustion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He suffered a stroke , but I believe he is said to be recovering . ’ |
| 8 | The quiet life obviously palled : he is said to be making a comeback . |
| 9 | He is said to be blaming ‘ Unionists ’ intransigence ’ for creating an atmosphere of hopelessness in City Hall . |
| 10 | He is believed to be carrying a hand gun and should not be approached , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He is reported to be negotiating the complete withdrawal of the 1,500 Soviet military advisers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 18 | He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . |
| 19 | he 's bound to be coming in and wanting to be starting that job |
| 20 | ‘ I would imagine so , seeing that he 's going to be working here ! |
| 21 | , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night . |
| 22 | He knows that he 'll be doing some writing and he 's going to be doing an album next year . |
| 23 | The main man-child 's self-adoring ennui sticks in the craw once you realise that this is what he 's going to be doing on his death bed . ’ |
| 24 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 25 | Erm he 's going to be recording Frances ' session |
| 26 | Tomorrow , he 's going to be travelling to Birmingham to cook a meal in front of a panel of experts . |
| 27 | He 's going to be going to talk about the . |
| 28 | He 's going to be going up erm each weekend if this happens |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | He says he 's thought to be carrying a pump action shotgun and may now be a traveeling criminal . |