Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 2 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 3 | The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) . |
| 4 | yes , if he 's been diagnosed as er , as a terminal illness . |
| 5 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 7 | Anyone who joins a bucket shop swiftly enough grasps what 's going on , even if he 's been lied to . |
| 8 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 9 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 10 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 11 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 12 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 13 | I say used to because he 's been struck off the medical register . |
| 14 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 15 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
| 16 | So , in Danger Rock , the practical knowledge of small ships and heavy seas belonging to the sailor known as Shelty is available to the apprentice of eighteen , Jim Naylor , who for his part rises to the challenge of danger ( when he and his fellow apprentices land on an uninhabited island off the Newfoundland coast after their ship has been holed by ice ) because he has been trained with command in mind . |
| 17 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 18 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 19 | It 's a long time since he 's been held like this . |
| 20 | In Richard III Clarence has every reason to fear for his life , since he has been imprisoned in the Tower of London . |
| 21 | After he 's been kept on his own , the troop wo n't accept him back . ’ |
| 22 | Try telling that to Niall — a practised afternoon riser back home — at breakfast after he 's been assaulted by crack-of-dawn alarm calls . |
| 23 | He 's going to see the Colonel tonight to tell him to take a month 's leave after he 's been discharged from hospital . ’ |
| 24 | The passivity of the wronged girl is a trait she shares with the hero of Guy Newell 's Fox Farm ( 1922 ) , a sensitive farmer abandoned by his go-getting wife after he has been blinded in an explosion . |
| 25 | Why has he sent Duncan 's eldest son north , after he has been kept at court all these years ? |
| 26 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 27 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 28 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 29 | Both relate to the social environment of the person with an established schizophrenic illness : while he is being treated for the disorder in hospital , and after he has been discharged into the community . |
| 30 | The student here may inform himself whether he has been favoured by heaven with this truly divine gift . |