Example sentences of "[conj] he be [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 2 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 3 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 4 | McLeish hesitated , then said stiffly that he was Francesca 's godson , and also something like her third cousin , or his mother was . |
| 5 | He could have been forgiven for thinking that he was God 's gift to acting . |
| 6 | But many years after Will died , William Davenant told a lot of people that he was Shakespeare 's son . |
| 7 | In all , identifying Ulf as the son of Ragnvald seems at least as plausible as believing that he was Cnut 's brother-in-law Ulf . |
| 8 | His behaviour at this point can be readily explained by the fact that he was Sigismund 's son-in-law . |
| 9 | I walked back from the Meeting with Quintin who knew by then that he was Macmillan 's selection , and I told him that the idea had my support . |
| 10 | His second name 's and he 's wife 's name . |
| 11 | Darling 's 711 tour runs ( 47.40 ) included centuries against Rhodesia and Transvaal , and he was McCabe 's partner during that batsman 's sensational innings at Johannesburg when the South Africans appealed against the light in self-defence . |
| 12 | Within seconds she was confronted by a tall man whom she took to be in his late forties , but who , she guessed , could n't be quite that if he was Rosie 's brother . |
| 13 | If he was Sorrel 's father , then he must have been around his mid-forties at least , but he 'd worn well . |
| 14 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 15 | I have no great love for Klaus Ebert — I think he 's a pompous old windbag , to tell the truth — but he is Hans 's father . |
| 16 | Duncan understood why the old man felt like that , but he was Duncan 's father and he would always be loyal to him . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean because he 's Ianthe 's uncle ? ’ said Sophia . |
| 18 | Though I do n't know why you think he 's so important , now we 've discovered he is n't R. Just because he was Puddephat 's tutee , it does n't mean he knew him terribly well . |
| 19 | Also , I must be one of the few people to get Cloughies autograph at a training session while he was Leed 's manager . |
| 20 | Nearly forty years had passed since he was Sheila 's age . |
| 21 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 22 | I was delighted to see the General again , and not merely as he was Bill 's father . |
| 23 | Uncle Willi , she was sure , would totally understand about being in love , even though he was Georg 's father , but he would n't understand that you had to be in love on the one night of his party , not when you 'd had all those other evenings with Gesner . |