Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] that he be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at his home near Florence he completed his book on hydrostatics , in which it is interesting to see that he was nonplussed by the fact that a thin flake of ebony , though denser than water would nevertheless float . |
| 2 | Whether this Luke is the same as ‘ Luke the Doctor ’ , who was with Paul in Rome while Paul was in prison ( Colossians 4:14 ) , is less certain , but most commentators are prepared to accept that he is . |
| 3 | ‘ I was prepared to believe that he was genuinely fond of her , although I do n't think many of the others at the Centre would have agreed with me . |
| 4 | Without going into whether the information would come from his audit file or the client 's file , the Institute has a stated policy that it will not put pressure on the incumbent auditor/adviser to supply information to a successor while fees remain outstanding — though the incumbent should be prepared to demonstrate that he is taking active steps to collect the outstanding fee including , if necessary , a writ or summons . |
| 5 | Yes , I 'd like to add one point , matters that the house continues in multiple occupancy and is successful at the present , and the landlord is not prepared to say that he is being now an agent of some hospital or other . |
| 6 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |
| 7 | I took this to mean that he was suicidal , so I immediately went upstairs and removed anything harmful from the bathroom . |
| 8 | He was forty-six , quite short and not afraid to admit that he was overweight . |
| 9 | It was easy to see that he was clever and well read , but he was also boring . |
| 10 | It was easy to see that he was the Princess 's father : her likeness to him was astonishing , as more than one person commented . |
| 11 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 12 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 13 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 14 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 15 | It 's dangerous to assume that he 's necessarily working in his own territory . |
| 16 | According to the poet laureate Robert Southey , Owen called his workers ‘ human machines ’ and delighted to demonstrate that he was able to make his workers happy at any time . |
| 17 | Other people found his looks so engaging that it is sad to think that he was deeply conscious of noses , especially when he was worried about Jewishness . |
| 18 | If it was contradictory to say that he was ready to go to another woman so soon after declaring Kee to be the one ‘ and no other ’ , very well then , he contradicted himself . |
| 19 | Was it too much to ask that he be allowed some privacy in his life ? |
| 20 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 4 ) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to prove that he was inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe that the words or behaviour used , or the written material displayed , would be heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling . ’ |
| 22 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 23 | Comparison with another related construction — that containing a subordinate clause — brings the meaning of the infinitive into clearer focus however and shows the reason for the use of to : ( 15a ) I am glad to know that he is safe . |
| 24 | He says that most of those years are just a blur but he finds it hard to forget that he was locked in a secure ward for the seriously mentally ill for two weeks . |
| 25 | Ricci gave a spectacular concert one evening , and it is hard to believe that he is now 75 years old ! |
| 26 | His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 . |
| 27 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 28 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 29 | When the universities reacted unfavourably to this aspect of the paper , accusing its authors of philistinism , the then Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , was quick to reply that he was not against the arts subjects : far from it . |
| 30 | It is good to see that he was remembered so kindly by at least one of his colleagues . |