Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet . |
| 2 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 3 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 4 | You know , so erm he 'll be glad to be home I think . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll be happy to be alive and perhaps he 'll help me to escape . ’ |
| 6 | ( This can be translated as ‘ He would be unable to be killed ’ : the final — ti represents the same morpheme as — dü ) . |
| 7 | When he died , when they found out what he had done , he would be lucky to be buried at all . |
| 8 | But he would be happy to be ‘ Godfather ’ to the project . |
| 9 | He will be content to be passed around a circle of admiring adults as if he were a parcel . |