Example sentences of "[noun] that he be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deconstructs the language of communication , representation , or expression ( when the individual or collective subject may have the illusion that he is imitating something or expressing himself ) and reconstructs another language , voluminous , having neither bottom nor surface … |
| 2 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 3 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 4 | It had crossed her mind that he was using her , but was n't she using him ? |
| 5 | But you can hardly set out to persuade your most promising applicant that he 's downgrading himself . |
| 6 | Thus the wording of an exclusion must be clear and unambiguous : " if a party wishes to exclude the ordinary consequences that would flow in law from the contract that he is making he must do so in clear terms " ( Scrutton LJ in Szymonowski v Beck [ 1923 ] 1 KB 457 ) . |
| 7 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 9 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 10 | cos if you do n't know how much money that he 's earning what can you do ? |
| 11 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 12 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 13 | THE Irish Republic looked set for an early General Election last night despite claims by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds that he was doing everything possible to avoid a poll . |
| 14 | He protested to Law that he was doing everything possible to hold Lancashire steady , but he was actually doing all he could to keep the issue alive , including the sending of a questionnaire to all the Lancashire constituencies . |
| 15 | But he was incapable of saying more , and instead seized her in a bearlike hug , heedless of her cry that he was squashing her . |
| 16 | So Taylor 's announcement that he 's to put his tactical paperwork in the office shredder and hand over the complete accounts ledger to Gascoigne is the most encouraging statement for English football since the surgeon passed Gazza 's knee A1 . |
| 17 | Boris Yeltsin , the CPSU 's most prominent radical , stunned the congress on July 12 with the announcement that he was resigning his party membership . |
| 18 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 19 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 21 | I told you on Saturday evening that he 's using you , just as he 's used me . ’ |
| 22 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 23 | ‘ Then how are you going to prove in court that he 's breaking his contract here by working somewhere else ? ’ |
| 24 | Livingston dismissed speculation that he was following his idol Ben Johnson all the way to taking drugs . |
| 25 | I think er through the figures that he was producing we all realized something was up and various computers flying around the place you know , and the figures produced by them . |
| 26 | If I heard him correctly , and I thought so , judging by the figures that he was quoting it must have been a more recent Price Waterhouse survey , not the original . |
| 27 | It ended by saying that Mrs Thatcher should apologise for trying to find Mr Clay a job and withdraw her request that he be given one . |
| 28 | A coward because he did not have the courage to tell Nicola that he was ending their affair , or a liar because he made a false promise to his wife to give up his young lover . |
| 29 | One is sometimes left with the feeling that he is presenting one with an interpretation cast in stone , with all unwelcome impurities filtered away — the ‘ perfect ’ solution , if you like . |
| 30 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |