Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 2 | Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges . |
| 3 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 4 | Thus , the doctor , on this reasoning , incurs no liability under the civil law ; nor can he be accused of any crime . |
| 5 | And will he be encouraged in future to do pets and their owners ? ) |
| 6 | Also , if a person chooses not to smoke why should he be subjected to such a poisonous , foul and unpleasant cocktail of several thousand gases in the form of tobacco smoke ? |
| 7 | Will he be caught at last , and put to death ? |
| 8 | Was he being treated for any medical condition ? ’ |
| 9 | He is human and so is she and all the marriage certificates in the world would not keep him faithful if he were tempted in those circumstances . ’ |
| 10 | And what if their occupants were already walking among us , keeping cautiously in the background to avoid notice and suspicion , just as twentieth-century man would need to do if he were thrust into another , and potentially hostile , age . |
| 11 | If he were a safety representative on a platform and , without explanation , he were transferred to another platform run by the same operator or service company , how would an industrial tribunal or any other organisation be able to prove that the reason for his transfer was that he was making a nuisance of himself over safety matters ? |
| 12 | He were born in nineteen sixty four were n't he ? |
| 13 | Because the State er if he were covered for twenty six weeks full pay |
| 14 | And if he were propelled by such categorical imperative to fail , he could not reek loveableness out of every pore … |
| 15 | In short , he is not frivolous enough for me : if he were soaked in boiling water … |
| 16 | It would be hard to give a satisfactory explanation if he were found in that part of the house so late at night . |
| 17 | He is born with that instinct , for no mother wasp ever taught him , nor does he possess the capacity to learn something so fundamental to his existence . |
| 18 | He is assisted by two or more technical assessors also appointed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 19 | He is selected for that reason , because he will not be suspected by the police . ’ |
| 20 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 21 | On top of all that , he is blessed with terrific good looks . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , a child who is being looked after by a local authority may not be placed , and , if placed , may not be kept , in accommodation provided for the purpose of restricting liberty ( ‘ secure accommodation ’ ) unless it appears — ( a ) that — ( i ) he has a history of absconding and is likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ; and ( ii ) if he absconds , he is likely to suffer significant harm ; or ( b ) that if he is kept in any other description of accommodation he is likely to injure himself or other persons . |
| 23 | A Balinese , like a tree , he told us , must remember that he is strung between two worlds , balanced between the pull of gravity and the pull of heaven . |
| 24 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 25 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 26 | Why is it , therefore , he is supported by thousands of Moroccan troops ( Arabs ) who , by no stretch of the imagination can be called Christians ? |
| 27 | Johnny McBride is hardly out of the Juvenile ranks but he is regarded as one of the most talented under-age players within the Oak Leaf county . |
| 28 | When a man looks at nature as Thoreau did , he is moved by some invisible influence . |
| 29 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 30 | He is called upon both to defend his faith against stiff opposition and to spread it among his friends . |