Example sentences of "[that] he [be] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | the issue to be determined ( 8.4 ) ( 1.1 ) ; the expert 's qualifications ( 8.5 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that he is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator ( 8.6 ) ( 1.3 ) ; how the expert is to be appointed ( 8.7 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that the decision will be final and binding ( 8.8 ) ( 1.3 ) ; the due date for payment of the amount determined ( 8.9 ) ( 1.3 ) ; that the expert has the power to award interest ( 8.10 ) ( 1.3 ) ; provision for interest to run for late payment of the amount determined ( 8.11 ) ( 1.4 ) ( sometimes found elsewhere in the agreement ) ; and how the expert is to be paid ( 8.12 ) ( 1.3 ) . |
| 2 | If in battle I see an explosion and my comrade , having lost half a leg , is doubled up in agony , there is no possibility that he is acting or pretending . |
| 3 | That is the implied warranty given by any agent ( whether auctioneer or not ) that he is acting within his principal 's ( in this case the seller 's ) authority . |
| 4 | In these circumstances it is sufficient for the broker to disclose to the customer that he is acting as principal , provided that he does not charge commission . |
| 5 | As indicated , where no commission is charged and the broker is acting honestly , clear disclosure of the fact that he is acting as principal is sufficient . |
| 6 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 7 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 8 | It means that he was acting as the Messiah , for ‘ to do good ’ is a Messianic action . |
| 9 | Flashman , who made his fortune touting tickets , insisted yesterday that he was acting only in self defence when he struck out at three photographers , including TODAY 'S Chris Turvey . |
| 10 | The context makes it likely that Gloucester was offering a short-term military contract ; in other words , that he was acting as recruiting officer for his brother 's army rather than laying the foundations of a personal following in East Anglia where , at this date , he had no interests of his own . |
| 11 | The latter was a member of Gloucester 's Sheriff Hutton connection and may be a ducal appointment , in which case it is likely that he was acting as deputy chief steward in the lordship . |
| 12 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 13 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 14 | Nor do I think that Mr. O'Brien thought for a moment that he was acting as the bank 's agent . |
| 15 | He felt that he was acting , by proxy , for her and all victims of crime like her in his role as gaoler . |
| 16 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 17 | Ponting 's defence was that he was acting in the public interest since he felt that the government was trying to mislead Parliament . |
| 18 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 19 | His knowledge gave him power over the customers who came in ; they shied away from the jargon that Lewis used and Tim felt that he was acting as an interpreter in a foreign country . |
| 20 | It is sufficient that he was acting within the ordinary course of business of mercantile agents generally . |
| 21 | Although during the 1987 congressional inquiry into the affair Poindexter shielded Reagan ( then President ) from any responsibility for the operation , his defence strategy against the criminal charges rested upon the claim that he had believed that he was acting with the President 's authority . |
| 22 | Gaston Flosse , President of French Polynesia since March 1991 , stepped down on July 13 following riots over the imposition of new taxes ordered by France , turning over his duties to Vice-President Michel Buillard ; refusing to characterize his move as a resignation , claiming that he was acting to create " the necessary distance for reflection " on the territory 's current conflict , Flosse had criticized his predecessor , Alexandre Leontieff , for forcing the unpopular measure through the territory 's Assembly . |
| 23 | The context makes it likely that Gloucester was offering a short-term military contract ; in other words , that he was acting as recruiting officer for his brother 's army rather than laying the foundations of a personal following in East Anglia where , at this date , he had no interests of his own . |
| 24 | The latter was a member of Gloucester 's Sheriff Hutton connection and may be a ducal appointment , in which case it is likely that he was acting as deputy chief steward in the lordship . |
| 25 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 26 | On the other hand , in ( 141 ) the " she " is represented as exerting a direct influence on the speaker in order to bring about his carrying her upstairs : the suggestion is that the speaker was given no choice , that he was acting under coercion . |
| 27 | Theodore claimed that he was acting on the instructions of Childebert 's magnates . |
| 28 | He backs up Mill 's claim that he was acting in self defence . |
| 29 | The trial judge , however , directed the jury that there was no evidence available against the first appellant that he was acting in concert , and that the only evidence that there was a concerted attack came , if the jury accepted it , from statements made by the second appellant outwith the presence of the first appellant . |