Example sentences of "that he be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now that he 's on short time he 's doing more round the house .
2 So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none .
3 Palace 's former England forward struck a glorious goal to serve Graham Taylor notice that he 's worth another try .
4 But it does n't follow that he 's in greater trouble now because
5 And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands .
6 It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now .
7 ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the …
8 ‘ When you read his report , you will see that he is of Russian descent .
9 ‘ Whenever you speak to me of this Harry of yours , your face and , indeed , your voice reveal that he is of special importance to you .
10 There are , therefore , two key features : first , that the patient is of an age the law regards as proper , and second , that he is of sound mind .
11 Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority .
12 Although his condition is in one sense hopeless , in that he will not recover , it is not hopeless in the sense that he is in imminent danger of dying .
13 A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion .
14 I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability .
15 Hayling simply rang him up , in the way that he was to cold-call others , asked for his help , and got it .
16 In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours .
17 He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed .
18 This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day .
19 Edward knew that he was on treacherous ground .
20 Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop .
21 ‘ I do n't think you should tell Foucard about Tim , even if you 're sure yourself that he was with Sabine Jourdain .
22 All four men 's evidence agreed that the assailant was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt with the word ‘ authentic ’ written on it in white lettering , and that he was between five foot eight and five foot ten inches tall .
23 He also made it clear that he was against black boycotts organized around the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , at which Thommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated on the victory rostrum with a gloved black power salute .
24 The Prime Minister told parliament that he was against freezing savings accounts or monetary reform which would devalue the internal rouble and cut the value of individuals ' savings .
25 And the fellow who told her that he was from another planet .
26 McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living .
27 Not that he was in much danger of noticing .
28 JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively .
29 He told the hotel that he was in financial difficulties and surrendered his passport to it .
30 In the space of ten days , Franco had demonstrated unequivocally that he was in complete control , militarily and politically .
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