Example sentences of "he be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 2 | Er , I wondered about this erm this Tory high flyer , about whom er , my friend over there speaks with such admiration and envy , he must have a tremendous influence because I wonder , had he been the mover behind the fact that this V A T on fuel is is there in every other country in Europe including Ireland where it 's about eleven percent . |
| 3 | After he was elected in November he revealed that he been the subject of racial attacks during his campaign . |
| 4 | But will he be the software genius of the 21st Century ? |
| 5 | Can he be the miller 's son ? |
| 6 | And may he be the healing of the things I wrought with his father ! ’ |
| 7 | How on Earth can he be the son of God , because God did n't have a wife . |
| 8 | The moor seemed more his own when it was unpeopled , so that his childhood fantasy might have become real and he be the lord of this wild country . |
| 9 | Everything that is done must be subordinate to some official who reports up to a member of the administrative class , who is under an assistant secretary who then puts the matter to the permanent secretary , he being the adviser to the minister . |
| 10 | He is up and about before his father and he gets his father up , as if he were the parent and his father the sleepy child . |
| 11 | Finally , ‘ Christendom ’ itself has betrayed Jesus by domesticating him as if he were the possession of the church , and by making faith the acceptance of formulae and practices hallowed by the authority of the past . |
| 12 | He had sat in front of her , in the square little room which was used as a study , as if he were the suppliant , and had seen her sharp little eyes , black as currants , move round the room , noting the gaps in the shelves where Father Kendrick 's leatherbound volumes had been stacked , the meagre rug in front of the gas fire , his few prints stacked against the wall . |
| 13 | They never called me nigger ’ — was innocent at first , but then taken up as if he were the provocateur of a national crisis . |
| 14 | In Capital Marx argues that as a result of the peculiar history of capitalism , the capitalist , who is really a parasite on the workers , is represented as though he were the opposite ; as the source of production and the benefactor of the workers . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 16 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 17 | such person shall as though he were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 18 | But Kerrison did n't need to be far out , if he were the murderer . |
| 19 | The men around this table had come to accept his leadership also , more and more as if he were the President . |
| 20 | Molly took a handkerchief and tidied him up as though he were the room . |
| 21 | George , who was to be in charge of the wires , having earlier walked round her as if he were the hangman measuring her for the drop , said Mary Deare would come into her own when she flew . |
| 22 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 23 | He sat up , corked the bottle , picked up his glass , pushed it away , cocked his head on one side , and said in a pathetic , slightly injured voice , as though he were the victim , not Sally-Anne , ‘ There — will that do , McAllister ? |
| 24 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 25 | A Tory colleague ( on his personality ) ‘ He is the school sneak . ’ |
| 26 | Hall , annoyed at being seeded No.2 to Baddeley even though he is the present No.1 , refused to labour the point : ‘ I wanted to prove to everyone that I could play good badminton , not to show the seeding committee to be at fault , ’ he said . |
| 27 | But , despite his annoyance at being seeded No.2 to Baddeley even though he is the present No.1 , he declined to labour the point afterwards . |
| 28 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 29 | He is the Word made flesh . |
| 30 | He is the Word of Easter — Rejoice , Life is given to us . |