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 | He was forty-six , quite short and not afraid to admit that he was overweight . |
| 7 | It was easy to see that he was clever and well read , but he was also boring . |
| 8 | It was easy to see that he was the Princess 's father : her likeness to him was astonishing , as more than one person commented . |
| 9 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 10 | Rather dubiously I put it to the Chairman and I was relieved to find that he was quite enthusiastic about the idea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's dangerous to assume that he 's necessarily working in his own territory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ ( 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ricci gave a spectacular concert one evening , and it is hard to believe that he is now 75 years old ! |
| 23 | His account of the Italian is sheer joy from beginning to end , and it 's hard to believe that he was almost 87 . |
| 24 | Curtis found it hard to believe that he was looking at the killer of at least twenty people . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is good to see that he was remembered so kindly by at least one of his colleagues . |
| 27 | He is a lovely man and it 's good to know that he is unlikely to end up punch-drunk or fighting in circus booths , as many top boxers have in the past . |
| 28 | It is good to know that he was able to share his tears with the hospital chaplain . |
| 29 | It is good to know that he was thought so highly of and that we have so many friends . |
| 30 | He had been provoked — and it is well to remember that he was then , and continues to this day to be , happily married to a beautiful and supportive wife — into seeking to continue the deception by a personal statement in the Commons in which he averred that he was innocent of the allegations and a wronged man . |