Example sentences of "[to-vb] that he be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 2 | There was nothing to indicate that he was anywhere in the village , and she did n't want to waste time on being any more thorough than this . |
| 3 | This gesture also served to indicate that he was still in charge , for the event was held in the face of opposition from other sectors of the regime , who considered it " madness to give this sensation of revitalization of the Falange " . |
| 4 | And now , now they 've come to realize that he 's only on a wage , he 's on a bloody good wage and all . |
| 5 | Gandhi was sufficiently aware of the utilitarian formula of the greatest happiness of the greatest number to realize that he was completely at odds with it as an interpretation of the aim anti purpose of life and as a principle of morality . |
| 6 | mm it 's interesting t to think that he 's now in his eighties and er |
| 7 | She set the time and was too happy to notice that he was more like a man listening to a door close than one going towards his joy . |
| 8 | Fr Piet Leliveld , newly arrived in war-torn Sudan , writes to say that he is now in Omdurman , near the site of the famous battle of 1898 , waiting for a government permit to move to El Obeid . |
| 9 | By way of variation , in October 1943 , his secretary wrote to say that he was away on business , and that it was ‘ quite probable ’ that he would not be able to attend on that occasion . |
| 10 | Even Americans round the table , who did n't give him a snowball in hell 's chance of getting approval to his plan , had to admit that he was still in there , fighting like a demon for a lost cause . |