Example sentences of "he be [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 2 | The relationship has not always been pointed out in discussions of Freud 's work , and yet it is an essential one if he is to be properly understood . |
| 3 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 4 | The standard has been set by Penny 's monumental work , and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement . |
| 5 | By conceding a large part of Reagan 's requests in both budget cuts and tax reductions , Jones hoped that compromise with the White House would be possible , but he was to be bitterly disappointed . |
| 6 | He was to be hugely admired on the classical stage by Sir Laurence Olivier , John Neville , Sir John Gielgud and Sir Peter Hall , loved on film by Humphrey Bogart , Clint Eastwood , John Huston , Mike Nichols . |
| 7 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 8 | If Henry had hoped for peace , he was to be sadly disillusioned . |
| 9 | In later years , after the oil fields were established , he was to be even busier when a helicopter pad was built in Unst . |
| 10 | He was to be frequently found at various ‘ gigs ’ with his Buckskin Boys — a square-dance group of three , of which he was the leader . |
| 11 | Now he was to be particularly zealous in the interests of the king . |
| 12 | For the remainder of his life he was to be closely associated with the building of Salisbury 's new cathedral . |
| 13 | And Dean set up ATP with backing from RKO , although he was to be rapidly disappointed in his expectation that the company would provide him both with technical expertise and favourable distribution in the US . |
| 14 | If de Gaulle entertained hopes of an alliance , however , he was to be swiftly disappointed : the MRP did not endorse the Bayeux constitution and , instead , moved towards a compromise with the parties of the left . |
| 15 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |