Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 2 | A memorandum by Frank Jacques to the District Council of 12 March 1955 , and an address he gave to that Council , made it clear that he was in favour of both Recommendations . |
| 3 | It was clear that he was in no condition to get himself home unaided . |
| 4 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 5 | From Manners ' remarks in Parliament on 18th February , it is clear that he was by then already familiar with Scott 's proposals although the detailed drawings were not sent to his office until 3rd March . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 8 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 9 | Linguists not working within Labov 's general framework are often less careful than he is about candid recording . |
| 10 | His back and neck injuries , for instance , have left him three-quarters of an inch shorter than he was at 21 . |
| 11 | But Antony was doing it and you put her on the tumbledryer behind him , and it was so funny cos he 's like this with his head going round Antony looking , every |
| 12 | Sandison was not surprised by this but he was at a loss as to how to proceed . |
| 13 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 14 | [ I only mention this because he was in fact wrong . |
| 15 | One man may believe he entered marriage because he was lonely , another because he was in love , a third because it was the ‘ thing to do ’ and a fourth because he wished to produce offspring . |
| 16 | This was interesting since he was on Coffin 's list of suspects . |
| 17 | With the exception of Bridgeman , the First Lord of the Admiralty , it is doubtful whether he was on close personal terms with any of them . |
| 18 | Absorbed as he was by the sight of a family in grief , a new phenomenon for him , he could not help observing , with some awe , the large number of military men present to testify to their friendship with the dead man . |
| 19 | Her father 's habitual mild-manneredness , which usually protected him from responding , became brittle and porous when he was in contact with his daughter : Miranda could see that he reacted to Xanthe 's silkiness as if she were n't a clear , sparkling water , but a fiery solvent that he , for all his well-preened feathers , could not resist . |
| 20 | He unselfconsciously expects the reader to be as interested as he is in Jean de Meung or Alanus . |
| 21 | He is a schoolteacher , 29 years old — the age of Christ at Calvary , whose name is often in his mouth , averse though he is to ‘ deities ’ , and perhaps of Hamlet , whose words enter the novel . |
| 22 | When he refers to Montagu as ‘ the Assyrian ’ and his Queen Anne 's Gate house as ‘ the silken tents of Shem ’ , he was not being jealous or even anti-semitic , but complacently and affectionately mocking of Montagu , of whom he was almost as fond as he was of Venetia . |
| 23 | Fond as he was of aquatints and textured design , colour rarely entered his commentary vocabulary . |
| 24 | Memet did not contradict her , for , fond as he was of her , he had no intention of marrying her . |
| 25 | Brave though he is in facing adult audiences , the result is a bit of a cringe . |
| 26 | Between 1193 and 1201 it is possible that he is to be identified with a master Elias , steward to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of Rochester [ q.v. ] , a close friend and kinsman of Hubert Walter . |
| 27 | A contemporary Christ Church gospel book records the entry of Cnut and his brother Harald into confraternity with the community , and although Cnut could simply have given them Harald 's name , it is possible that he was in England in 1016 , as Thietmar says , remained with Cnut , went to Canterbury , and returned to Denmark with part of the fleet after the payment of 1018 . |
| 28 | When he 's at home , Mr Quigley is even more masterful than he is in other people 's houses . |
| 29 | God knows , he could n't be any worse at that than he was at his last job … |
| 30 | Speed really wants to play more centrally and lets face it is better making runs into the box , for crosses and knocks-down than he is at beating a full-back and crossing the ball . |