Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 2 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
| 3 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 4 | In late December Alberto Jorge Triaca , a former Labour Minister dropped from the Cabinet in a reshuffle in January 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] , was dismissed by Menem as the head of SOMISA , the country 's largest steel mill , a post to which he had been appointed in May 1991 . |
| 5 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
| 6 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 7 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 8 | Mugabe stated that Tekere could rejoin ZANU-PF , from which he had been expelled in October 1988 [ see p. 36415 ] , provided that he " retrace his steps " . |
| 9 | But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 . |
| 10 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
| 11 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 12 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 13 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 14 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 15 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 16 | What he does is to disbelieve in his previous world view because of needs which his previous world view can no longer answer . |
| 17 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 18 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 19 | Much of what he said was lost in the noise , but once , as we climbed a precipitous path and were no more than four metres apart , I heard him cry aloud the name of William again . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West was right about car security and what he said was reflected in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden , who urged us to do more about car security . |
| 21 | yes , but you talked , listened to a parson on telly , he 's convinced what he 's saying true , yet it 's only what he 's been told in it ? |