Example sentences of "[subord] he be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
| 2 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 3 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 4 | He performed only 24 hours within the first 12 months of the order , and was brought before the Crown Court where he was found to be in breach of the order , which was revoked . |
| 5 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 6 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 7 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 8 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 9 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 10 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |
| 11 | Gob open and arms flapping , Ashcroft has the rare ability to sing about how he 's ‘ born to fly ’ while looking like he was born to be institutionalised , and make it convincing . |
| 12 | He felt like he was going to be sick . |
| 13 | If he 's determined to be awkward , roll on the eighth ! |
| 14 | If my husband 's going to be in about that time we all have it together , but if he 's going to be late they have theirs first . |
| 15 | If he 's going to be hungry , maybe I ‘ d better get a meal together . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's a good boy , he 's done nothing , they 've taken him away , I know he always comes home or sends me word if he 's going to be kept . ’ |
| 17 | If you pay money to an artist how can you tell if he 's going to be famous a couple of years from now ? |
| 18 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 19 | But if he 's going to be a leader , he 's got to be a bit of a bastard ’ . |
| 20 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 21 | If he 's going to be miserable I mean it 's only nursery it does n't really matter . |
| 22 | I mean it is a possibility , and if he 's going to be awkward perhaps we 'll have to just make sure that we do that , which is presumably fairly easy , if the post goes out from the same office . |
| 23 | It is sufficient if he is shown to be intentionally using violence or if he is aware that his conduct may be violent . |
| 24 | ‘ … that it would look much better if he was seen to be supporting indigenous native art as well as looking to Africa or Latin America . |
| 25 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 26 | He was staring at the floor , keeping very still as if he was trying to be part of the wall . |
| 27 | But if he was trying to be a political playwright then should n't he clarify what he . |
| 28 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 29 | If he was expecting to be well in the clear at lunchtime , he was mistaken , Blackmoor 's own Paul Tupper carding a marvellous 66 , with seven birdies . |
| 30 | In what must now rank as one of the most well worn cliches of modern football , Peter Marinello was dubbed ‘ The Scottish George Best ’ , and with predictable results , the machinery of pop music , fashion and advertising pursued the young Hibernian player as if he was guaranteed to be the next big thing . |