Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were a safety representative on a platform and , without explanation , he were transferred to another platform run by the same operator or service company , how would an industrial tribunal or any other organisation be able to prove that the reason for his transfer was that he was making a nuisance of himself over safety matters ? |
| 2 | He is heard to great advantage in the defiantly difficult Scherzo tarantelle , where he surmounts every complexity with seemingly effortless bravura , whilst his account of the Souvenir de Moscou is magnificent . |
| 3 | However , he is reduced to sleazy encounters with both men and women in 42nd Street grindhouses and hotels . |
| 4 | Otherwise he is restricted to those jobs which he can do one-handed . |
| 5 | He is resigned to public indifference to the benefits of efficiency , as well as to the effects of greenhouse gases . |
| 6 | The plaintiff 's feelings may be wounded if he is subjected to aggressive cross-examination , especially if it is designed to support what transpires to be an unsuccessful plea of justification , so this forensic factor may be brought into account . |
| 7 | In a letter to The Times she wrote : ‘ He is used to one-to-one relationships but society , and certainly schools , are composed of groups of people . |
| 8 | He is used to abrupt changes . |
| 9 | ( e ) where a person is in police detention in one police area and his arrest is sought in another area and he is taken to that area for questioning , the relevant time is : ( i ) the time of his arrival at the police station in the second area , ( ii ) the time 24 hours after he leaves the police station in the first area , whichever is the earlier . |
| 10 | He talks well , he 's travelled to distant lands , he speaks foreign languages , he 's conversant with the arts — more than conversant — and he dresses in clothes which do n't fit the contours of his body and are therefore declared to be fashionable by people in the know . |
| 11 | Chap 's got to get out , if he 's used to fresh air . |
| 12 | I only look towards someone like Dylan because I see the things that have happened in his career and the conclusions he 's come to and the way he 's responded to outside forces , the audience , the press … and I recognize a similarity to how I feel in my career . |
| 13 | His predecessor , Nicholas Ridley , had favoured the building of Foxley Wood , but his approach to the environment was so unpopular that he was moved to another department . |
| 14 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 15 | He was not to fly operationally on Malta again however , for on release from hospital in March , he was despatched to Middle East Headquarters in Cairo . |
| 16 | Shortly before the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in July 1986 he was transferred to other duties , much to Diana 's dismay . |
| 17 | In July 1991 he was transferred to 9 avril Prison in Tunis . |
| 18 | He received acetylcysteine , but his condition deteriorated , showing signs of liver failure , and he was transferred to this hospital for supportive treatment . |
| 19 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
| 20 | He was posted to northern France , and in 1952 published an account of his activities ( which extended to French Flanders , Belgium , and Holland ) in Normandy Diary , a book of permanent value to the antiquarian and architectural historian , and one that can be read with pleasure by the non-specialist as an engaging but unconscious self-portrait . |
| 21 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 22 | Eventually , however , he was traced to new lodgings at the Angel Inn nearby , and shortly afterwards , in spite of protests , was safely on board the Bath coach , with Southey standing guard . |
| 23 | He was given to drunken displays of macho prowess . |
| 24 | Obviously John had no time to investigate the theory , and probably he would not have bothered anyway , since it looks convincing and he was given to quick enthusiasms . |
| 25 | In particular , he was given to unusual enthusiasms . |
| 26 | Mr Gordon added : ‘ He was sent to one bail hostel , then transferred to another in Corfton Road , Ealing , west London , on December 12 . |
| 27 | Formerly Australia 's most wanted man , he walked out of Springhill Open prison near Aylesbury 7 weeks ago and has n't been seen since , giving rise to questions about how he was sent to low-security confinement in the first place . |
| 28 | The Encomiast 's tale that he was born to another woman and smuggled into Ælfgifu of Northampton 's bed at least implies that he was generally recognised as son of Cnut and Ælfgifu , and Adam calls Gorm the Old Hardecnudth Vurm , which if correct makes it feasible to believe that Cnut named Swegen and Harold from his father and grandfather , and Harthacnut , evidently the third-born , after his great-grandfather . |
| 29 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 30 | He was appointed to two sinecures , one being a share in the living of Cladinam in Montgomeryshire , and the other the canonry of Lincoln , together with the prebend of Leighton Ecclesia , which he tried in vain to pass on to his friend Nicholas Ferrar . |