Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 2 | Where he stands is right behind that number eight ball . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Although he has been bad-mouthed and rubbished by lots of the women he has slept with , he never says anything about them , which I suppose is quite admirable . ’ |
| 4 | A librarian may build up sections of the stock that he feels are important even though there is no immediate response in terms of issues . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend is right to put his finger on advice that he thinks is wrong . |
| 6 | The values that he advocates are identical with his life . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 8 | If your former employer unreasonably refuses to supply a statement , or if the information that he gives is inadequate or untrue , you may apply to a tribunal which : |
| 9 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 10 | Although his analysis is principally philosophical and occasionally historical the concepts and theoretical relations between them that he develops are relevant to understanding specific instances of ideology . |
| 11 | The fact that we find fewer performance errors after scene six , coupled with a lesser tendency to talk at length , suggests that he has been shocked out of his absent-mindedness and emerges , at least for the rest of the play 's duration , as a more direct speaker . |
| 12 | Where a solicitor realises himself that he has been negligent or his client makes a claim against him on that ground , the client must be told of the circumstances ( if he is not already aware of them ) and be advised to seek independent advice . |
| 13 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 14 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 15 | We begin to leaf through two large black plan chests containing examples of numerous advertising campaigns that he has been involved in over the years . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that he has been involved in more intimidating tackles than most professionals of his generation , he thinks a line has to be drawn between hard edged professionalism and pathological violence . |
| 17 | She recently found out that he has been involved in at least five other relationships , three concurrent to hers . |
| 18 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 19 | The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation . |
| 20 | That he has been able to combine both ministries would be surprising were it not for the fact that he has worked as an active Socialist besides having a good track record in cultural affairs . |
| 21 | He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise . |
| 22 | But if the additional candidate is not elected , he will still have been useful to his party provided that he has been able to collect votes which on his elimination are transferred to stronger running-mates still in need of them . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm glad that he has been able to help . ’ |
| 24 | It 's thanks to a hefty sponsorship package from Village Homes that he has been able to make the move after only one full season of FF1600 racing in Ireland . |
| 25 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 26 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 27 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 28 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 29 | The offeror will need to show that he has been unable to trace the shareholders after reasonable enquiry , that the shares for which acceptances have been received when added to those held by untraceable shareholders amount to not less than the 90 per cent threshold , and that the consideration offered is fair and reasonable . |
| 30 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |