Example sentences of "[adj] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aah 'm afraid 'e 's badly , lass , ’ Annie answered sadly . ’ |
| 2 | In 1357 he is required by statute to entrust the administration of the property to the near relations of the deceased . |
| 3 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 4 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 5 | In 1895 he was appointed to succeed William Adams [ q.v. ] as locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway , where he had new and well-equipped locomotive workshops built in Eastleigh to replace the existing inadequate facilities in Nine Elms in London . |
| 6 | In 1895 he was made a director of the Bank of England , becoming deputy governor in 1911 and governor in 1913 . |
| 7 | So he always remembers the time he went to this He 's no idea who 's funeral he was at but he just went along and then he was taken to see the family . |
| 8 | In a minute oh this is it oh no they 're not re releasing in that Cor look at this he 's not doing the one , he 's doing all his Christmas ones together . |
| 9 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 10 | In this he is at one with most Christian Democrats and most Social Democrats in Europe today . |
| 11 | For this he is considered by his admirers ‘ one of the master-minds of our country ’ . |
| 12 | In this he is not unlike Sefton Goldberg in Coming from Behind , Jacobson 's earlier novel . |
| 13 | Yet despite this he is created in a relationship of accountability to God and the sphere of his accountability includes the economic . |
| 14 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 15 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 16 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 17 | In this he is found wearing the outfit that Minton approved ( blue pin-striped suit and white collar ) . |
| 18 | A significant proportion of Playfair 's executed work must therefore be regarded as not fully mature , but in spite of this he is a figure of considerable interest as a pioneering exponent of the spare detail and basic geometrical forms of advanced neo-classicism . |
| 19 | After all this he is then ready for another day at Sekers — where he works ! . |
| 20 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 21 | In this he is advised by English Heritage and the Ancient Monuments Boards for Scotland and Wales . |
| 22 | Added to this he is about 24 so he 's probably too old . |
| 23 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 24 | In this he was encouraged by the Unitarian minister Mr Tarrant and a new friend , the literary critic James Ashcroft Noble . |
| 25 | On this he was adamant and unswerving , however much his father might extol the supreme chance at Oxford to make contacts for a future career , as yet undefined . |
| 26 | In this he was mistaken . |
| 27 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 28 | In this he was the opposite of Reinhardt . |
| 29 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
| 30 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |