Example sentences of "he [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 He eventually was driven off the farm but the respectable white people who went to church .
2 Would he eventually be ousted by one of them , a toothless lion left to die of starvation while the rest of the herd loped off after game he could no longer compete for ?
3 Although Anselm made it clear that he personally was bound to observe the papal decrees of 1099 until released by proper authority , he remained neutral in all the negotiations between the king and pope .
4 Each Jew must imagine that he personally was brought out of bondage in Egypt and taken to the Holy Land .
5 Will the Prime Minister confirm that he personally was informed about British Steel 's decision to close Ravenscraig over a fortnight before the official announcement last week and that instead of trying to reverse the decision , he and the Secretary of State for Scotland took part in a conspiracy of silence ?
6 — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest .
7 For a pupil under 16 , the parent alone is entitled to access , for a pupil aged 18 or over he alone is entitled and when he is 16 and 17 they both have the right .
8 He poured out his heart about the faithlessness of Israel , his own loyalty to God , his loneliness in his dangerous situation , and a feeling that he alone was left to defend the divine cause .
9 Or might he just be tempted to make one last attempt to lead the Labour party across the river ?
10 And if he does , when might he best be pushed ?
11 This dog would clearly have been a dual champion had he not been killed at an early age , constituting a great loss to the Australian show scene .
12 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death .
13 To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed .
14 To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed .
15 Indeed , sometimes killing can end a deadlock or cut short suffering , and I think that this happened in Eddie' case — he would have lived an isolated and miserable life had he not been killed , so Marco almost did him a favour .
16 Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different .
17 It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all .
18 Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity .
19 If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned .
20 And he , Neil Cochrane , really did know about such Birds of Paradise , for had he not been loved and betrayed by one , and learned his bitter lesson — never to love or trust a woman again ?
21 John Crabb would have captained it all , had he not been captured ; but other shipmen were eager to lead .
22 Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury .
23 And the buttonhole might never have become his trademark had he not been accused of being ostentatious .
24 Why , then , has he not been released ?
25 Trent might have laughed had he not been thrown against the motor cycle as the hurricane drove Golden Girl aground .
26 He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates .
27 Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own .
28 Should he not be asked ? ’
29 As an externalist , would he not be justified in simply dismissing the argument from error as an irrelevant expression of internalism ?
30 Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 .
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