Example sentences of "[that] he [be] [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 The individual is never informed of what it is he ( sic ) is alleged to have done to give rise to the suspicion ; nor , indeed , is it necessary that he be convicted of any offence .
2 And she said , no it was just that he 's talking of renting his house erm and I know of someone who wants to rent one .
3 My right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has recently made statements , and was on the radio this morning , about the review that he is conducting of how court procedures can be improved .
4 As he looks at examination papers undistinguished by any spark of originality , and recognises the pale image of his carefully prepared arguments , he finds , incongruously , that he is thinking of casting pearls !
5 Indeed , through the fact that he is spoken of as though there present , something different is being said of Christ than of anyone else .
6 Moreover , the word ‘ notion ’ is not meant to suggest that he is talking of an idea in our minds ; he is concerned rather with that actual feature of good things which is picked out by the word ‘ good ’ .
7 The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 .
8 Florence says that Æthelred had esteemed him greatly , and that he was deprived of his property for unjust judgements and proud deeds , while charter evidence speaks of most serious crime and treachery , leading to the loss of all that he had unjustly acquired .
9 In January 1988 Leeds crown court excluded statements by the accused with the result that he was acquitted of the murder of a police sergeant and the attempted murder of a constable .
10 On Dec. 24 Ershad was finally informed that he was under house arrest " for public safety and public order " and that he was suspected of corruption and abuse of power .
11 It was because this undertaking was the equivalent of a court order and was fully enforceable by the court that he was convicted of the offence .
12 Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant .
13 It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world .
14 His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago .
15 J. went off to another station at one point for a two week course on shoe repairing and general leatherwork — not that he was thinking of setting up in business as a cobbler , but figuring that a free training on any practical skill was worth having .
16 Peter said feebly that he was thinking of going to India next year .
17 ’ John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ‘ In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ’ .
18 She saw the flicker of pain cross his face as she spoke of Lizzy and guessed that he was thinking of his own daughter .
19 Although the last sentence in that passage could be read as covering any demand for payment in purported reliance upon a statute Martin B. does relate it to a ‘ service rendered ’ and the following interjection by him during argument , at p. 629 , suggests that he was thinking of a demand colore officii in the sense referred to by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ. :
20 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
21 She knew instantly that he was thinking of the Father of Lies — for the Prince of Darkness has as many titles as the Prince of Wales — and she went pink .
22 The hon. Gentleman then said that he was thinking of municipalising water .
23 Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’
24 He knew that he was accused of indecisiveness and vacillation ( that is what Hamlet means to Italians ) and seems to have felt he may have broken his lance on windmills ( that is what Don Quixote means ) .
25 Sources in Banjul suggested that he was accused of mishandling the allocation of land for tourism development ; he had been a controversial figure since the end of 1988 when he was alleged to have sold donated drugs to the government .
26 But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it .
27 She knew that her eldest son was involved in all manner of criminal activities , that he was thought of as a kind of mobster .
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