Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is descended from Mbatian . ’ |
| 2 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 3 | He resumes his inventory of all the hit acts he 's signed and the propositions he 's declined from budding Madonnas wanting to sleep their way to the top . |
| 4 | ‘ Cooney , ’ she says by way of special tribute , ‘ has done so much for Irish music , with all that he 's brought from other cultures . ’ |
| 5 | In both , defendants say they were tortured in detention ; one says he was kidnapped from neighbouring Uganda . |
| 6 | The Protectorate , however , led to a change in the official attitude towards him , and by 1656 he was ousted from public activities , being excluded even from Oliver Cromwell 's second Parliament , though elected for Hertfordshire . |
| 7 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 8 | He was rescued from breathtaking rent rises by Cornelissen , from where he continues to supply artists and calligraphers . |