Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her , the court case , where he was fined £500 and banned for a year , was her lowest point . |
| 2 | Joseph saw that although he was given evil he was able to turn it into goodness . |
| 3 | He was also said to be unpopular with some members of the profession , although he was elected president of the London Veterinary Medical Society . |
| 4 | Although he was allowed family visitors following his conviction , he is once again being denied visits and his relatives are not allowed to communicate with him . |
| 5 | The huge eight-year-old gelding , whose appetite is so big that he is nicknamed Monster Munch , was led through a crowd of 500 well-wishers to his box at the Saxon House stables of his trainer , Nick Gaselee . |
| 6 | It is no wonder that he was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1756 , three years after the society awarded him the Copley Medal . |
| 7 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 8 | humbug and foolishness ; that it was all prearranged ; that he was given music which he already knew ; that it was ridiculous to think that he could compose , and so forth . |
| 9 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 10 | So well did he play that he was named man of the match . |
| 11 | It was however during his years as The Guardian 's cricket correspondent in the mid-1980s that he was crowned Granada 's Sports Writer of the Year . |
| 12 | Now that he was crowned King of Scots , he was to pay homage for his kingdom to the English monarch as Lord Paramount . |
| 13 | An expert who does not ensure that the question of fees and expenses is determined in advance might , if the question were subsequently disputed , have to sue both to establish the fact that he was owed money ( either as a matter of contract or quantum meruit ) and to justify the amount . |
| 14 | A man explained that he was called Ibrahim to keep alive the name of his grandfather 's brother , killed without issue perhaps at the battle of Yellow Hill , or at Kawz , or at Hawaria ; and the same patterns appeared in other genealogies : the names of men without descendants , killed in battle , are recalled for use in a collateral line in later generations . |
| 15 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 16 | It 's here that he was caught fishing out of season by National Rivers Authority water bailiffs . |
| 17 | This was totally in contradiction to Mr Venables ' claim that he was promised security of tenure . |
| 18 | Richard Armstrong , an independent investigator , told Darlington magistrates yesterday that he was told Timothy Sturdy had killed himself after being declared bankrupt . |
| 19 | Despite the violence of the schism with his father , the eccentric streak prevailed to the extent that he was offered funds until he found his feet back West . |
| 20 | Leonard believed that they interconnected more than he is given credit for ; he chose to speak of that one within , though not absolutely . |
| 21 | Morris 's effect on a whole section of society in encouraging the preservation of old houses was far greater than he is given credit for . |
| 22 | George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime , but it features a black criminal , so he is called racist . |
| 23 | Richard , having declared the marriage of Edward IV as invalid , claimed that the children were illegitimate , so he was crowned Richard III , in the summer of 1483 . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the court decided that imprisonment would be in neither Howard 's nor the public 's interests , so he was fined £50 , ordered to pay £30 costs and disqualified from driving for eight years . |
| 25 | He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge . |
| 26 | — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest . |
| 27 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 28 | And he 's called Gary . |
| 29 | ‘ And he 's called Jack . |
| 30 | Oliver said : ‘ He 's involved in the deception over the Durances and he 's abducted Barbara Coleman to keep her quiet about it . |