Example sentences of "he be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think he is to be pitied because all he does is make enemies for himself . |
| 32 | A DOCTOR convicted of attempted murder after giving a dying patient an overdose will know within days if he is to be struck off . |
| 33 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 34 | calling for his immediate release , and if he is to be charged , given a fair and prompt trial ; |
| 35 | Gazza should now be encouraged , not discouraged , and then disillusioned to find out that he is to be overlooked until next February . |
| 36 | But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie ! |
| 37 | Lascube has served his suspension , as did Moscato , but the latter will have to show that his discipline has improved before he is to be considered for selection again . |
| 38 | The standard has been set by Penny 's monumental work , and he is to be heartily congratulated for his achievement . |
| 39 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 40 | In his final commentary , however , he is to be found mourning the loss of faith : |
| 41 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 42 | He is to be congratulated on his excellent choice of guardian angels . |
| 43 | The reader 's expectation is to be satisfied by the unexpected : he is to be taken away from normal concerns by events of an exaggerated , heightened nature , often taking place in exotic , distant surroundings . |
| 44 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It is precisely because Herbert Marcuse , for example , has retained the notion of the death instincts that he is to be seen as having advanced psychoanalytic sociology and social philosophy . |
| 47 | Even if the witness is willing , the law of the place in which he is to be examined may be such as to render the examination inadequate . |
| 48 | God has a stupendous commission for Moses — he is to be God 's messenger to Pharaoh , and lead his people to freedom — but the missionary is most reluctant . |
| 49 | He is to be approached only in the ways he lays down . |
| 50 | 1 Inform patient quietly that he is to be transferred to theatre . |
| 51 | The more the analyst knows about the features of context , the more likely he is to be able to predict what is likely to be said ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | He is to be ‘ treated as entitled to the deposit without the intervention of any trust . ’ |
| 54 | If the accused , by reason of being the controlling shareholder or otherwise , is ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ he is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own appropriation of the company 's property . |
| 55 | Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying , " Depend upon it , Sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully . |
| 56 | the organisational objectives as gauged by an individual need to be compatible with personal objectives of the individual if he is to be a well-integrated member of the organisation . |
| 57 | I see , she thought , he is to be the one who is rejected ; that is how it is to be . |
| 58 | He has also been advised that he is to be presented with an award from the Royal Yachting Association Seamanship Foundations by HRH the Princess Royal on 9 January . |
| 59 | If revaluation of his security is necessary , resulting in a greater shortfall , he is to be treated as the creditors referred to in the previous paragraph . |
| 60 | In the late 1260s and early 1270s he is to be found acting as the business agent of the west midland baron John de Verdun . |