Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 2 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 3 | It is possible that he may still be a candidate for the post of Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 4 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 5 | Indeed , even if a proposed market counterparty indicates that he does not want to be a market counterparty under the SFA test , he may nonetheless be a market counterparty in relation to the particular transaction concerned under the SIB test . |
| 6 | He knew he must still be an object of some interest . |
| 7 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Come on , let's get out of John 's office , he 'll likely be a while yet . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 10 | He 'll always be a flier , but with skill and imagination , he hopes to bring this dream safely home . |
| 11 | He 'll never be a man , he 's still in the nursery playing with toy bikes . ’ |
| 12 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 13 | The derogatory phrase ‘ he 's not a real polis ; he 'll never be a polis as long as he 's got a hole in his arse ’ quickly set out markers to define who was one of us and who was not . |
| 14 | After all , he 'll still be the WBC champion in the New Year . ’ |
| 15 | After all , he 'll still be the WBC champion . ’ |
| 16 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 17 | as if he might actually be a Muslim , in spite of himself . |
| 18 | He could also be a sage , TV-style , and an acclaimed public figure . |
| 19 | ‘ He could well be a friend of the girl 's father . ’ |
| 20 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 21 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 22 | He could never be an exception ; he is dependent on the health of his society , needing the sandy smiles of Rolf and Rudolph , of Rudiger , of Reinhard . |
| 23 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 24 | One of my mates is convinced he could still be a rock and roll star . |
| 25 | He was strong certainly and brave but armed only with a staff he could hardly be a match for five armed men . |
| 26 | But he 'd rather be an Ibrox sub than a top team star with any side south of the border . |
| 27 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 28 | This was a visit arranged before John Patten knew whether he 'd still be an MP , never mind Secretary of State of Education . |
| 29 | It was doubtful whether he would even be a member of the War Committee . |
| 30 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |