Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 3 | He has been polite to Paul all along . |
| 4 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 5 | Despite Finn 's hundreds of dollars , he still likes to wear old , tatty clothes + lead the rough life he has been used to . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Again , he has been prepared to be physical when the necessity arose while his choice of options has been admirable for one so short of international experience . |
| 8 | The Académie Française on this count he notes is similar to ( Weber 's bureaucratic ) church . |
| 9 | You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it . |
| 10 | Mr Stewart 's advocate , Craig Scott , is hoping to persuade the court to order Central Region to hand over documents which he claims are vital to his client 's case . |
| 11 | He 's been good to me . |
| 12 | He 's been marvellous to me , and particularly to Rob , despite the difference in their ages . |
| 13 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 14 | He 's been kind to me . ’ |
| 15 | he 's been naughty to me , cos he not letting me in , he , he not letting me in his coat either |
| 16 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |