Example sentences of "he has [be] " in BNC.

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1 With reference to War Office letter of 3rd March 1945 regarding your husband Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , I am directed to inform you that in view of the length of time which has elapsed since Lieutenant Cairns was reported missing , during which no news of him has been received from any source , the Department has reluctantly , and with deep regret , reached the conclusion that he lost his life .
2 Thousands of books have been written about the poet 's life and work , his family and friends have been scrutinised , and every place connected with him has been sought out .
3 GREENE 'S '50s novel of a naively evil American agent in Indo-China and the cynical English hack who befriends him has been timely ever since it was published .
4 Richard 's second victim , Clarence , is also taken in by the hypocrite 's feigned concern , but since the real plot against him has been done through intermediaries he may seem less blameworthy .
5 I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’
6 " Yes , I do , " says the shepherd , " but the only thing I could do to express my love for Him has been taken away from me . "
7 Oh , so you think that the whole appreciation of John Major , the whole perception of him has been knocked sideways by the press 's need
8 Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi .
9 Olivier Nwaha Binya'a : a Jehovah 's Witness , he has been detained without charge or trial since May 2984 because of his religious beliefs .
10 This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since .
11 The student here may inform himself whether he has been favoured by heaven with this truly divine gift .
12 Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity .
13 And now he has been put down , made to seem anti-Semitic , by a probable anti-Semite .
14 The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation .
15 In general , though , he has been faithful , in most of what he has written , to a version of the mobile and multiple , mysterious and fugitive self .
16 Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote .
17 Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime .
18 There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place .
19 There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ .
20 He has been so occupied since before his first book was published ; in season and out of season , through thick and thin , and always with the certitude that his views , his perceptions , would prevail : a catalyst and an agitator of the first order .
21 He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’
22 He has been no trouble with my two GSD bitches but while out walking , he flies at other dogs .
23 He has been with ‘ our old friend ’ too long .
24 In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines .
25 Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method .
26 The American critics were usually poets themselves ; Leavis made no attempt to be a creative writer — though he has been claimed as such by Ian Robinson — but his own criticism emerged from the Cambridge milieu of the twenties , where Eliot was a dominant influence .
27 Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy .
28 The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep .
29 But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow .
30 He has been savaged throughout his visit to Rome by an unusual alliance of fundamentalist Protestants and Tory MPs not usually known for their theological knowledge or zeal .
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