Example sentences of "be [conj] he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 2 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 3 | Well I just feel no matter sentence he serves he 's always going to be that he 's left my daughter with a life sentence . |
| 4 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |
| 5 | Before they had left her flat he had telephoned colleagues to say where he would be if he were needed . |
| 6 | It was held : ( a ) When the police took the deceased into custody they assumed certain responsibilities , including that of passing on information which might affect his well being when he was transferred to the prison authorities . |
| 7 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 8 | ‘ Well all I 'm tellin' you , Pat , is that he 's made a lot of enemies . |
| 9 | ‘ The idea is that he 's stopped for good . ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 11 | It 's a strange journey Paul Weller 's made , but stranger still is that he 's managed to take the greater part of his audience along with him . |
| 12 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 13 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 14 | What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing . |
| 15 | His torment is that he is forced to face the etched face of a Daemonette carved into the wall opposite , which flicks out a long serrated fleshy tongue which rips into the man 's neck and chest . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , one thing I know about Mr Coffin is that he was born in the early nineteen-twenties . |
| 17 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 18 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 19 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 20 | The second thing Victor wants to say is that he was spurred into action by the piece on holes in bread , which has put one or two of you into a right old sandwich . |
| 21 | ‘ All we know is that he was knocked out while someone jumped on him . ’ |
| 22 | It appears he took his own life but the truth is that he was murdered . |
| 23 | You say that your information is that he was wounded ? ’ |
| 24 | The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’ |
| 25 | The licensee says that 's because he 's determined to ensure it 's safe : |
| 26 | ‘ It 's because he was found talking to you . |
| 27 | The time that interests me is before he was posted to the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo , before he became a flier . |
| 28 | That had been when he was made known to Robert Asshe , Dinah 's father , heir of a long line of actors . |
| 29 | Another was that he be given plenipotentiary powers . |
| 30 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |