Example sentences of "that he [be] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hodge recognised that his position had become untenable and wrote to MacArthur proposing that he be replaced within six to eight weeks . |
| 2 | For now Ted is concentrating on recording Des O'Connor 's new game show called Pot of Gold and he 's pleased that he 's regarded as one of the best in the trade at warming up people . |
| 3 | Steven Redgrave , so dead set on a third consecutive rowing gold that he 's trained through four months of a stomach illness that would put many of us in hospital . |
| 4 | A Balinese , like a tree , he told us , must remember that he is strung between two worlds , balanced between the pull of gravity and the pull of heaven . |
| 5 | He was appointed an official painter to the French Army in 1951 , the mounted branches always being favourite subjects ( it was as a Horse Artillery NCO that he was mobilised in 1939 ) . |
| 6 | Although Gregory insisted that he was related to thirteen of his predecessors in the see , his family was most obviously connected with Burgundy and the Auvergne , and a local priest , Riculf , saw him as an outsider . |
| 7 | To be preferred is the Scottish king-list , which claims that he was captured and blinded by King Edgar , dying in Rescobie ( Angus , Tayside ) ; the annals of Tigernach confirm this by noting that he was blinded in 1099 , probably the date of his death . |
| 8 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 9 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 10 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 11 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
| 12 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 13 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
| 14 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 15 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 16 | Bernard Fall says very precisely that he was held from 28 August 1942 to 16 September 1943 . |
| 17 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 18 | Knowles claimed that he was interviewed by two security officers who asked him to change his story on ‘ patriotic grounds ’ and say the body was Crabb 's . |
| 19 | It is likely that he was photographed in 1887 , shortly after the Nez Perce war , probably at Bismark . |