Example sentences of "[pron] he [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got to be Coptic , of course , and preferably someone he 's met through the church . |
| 2 | Someone he 's met at Cannes ? |
| 3 | But he told himself he was mistaken . |
| 4 | In spite of himself he was tempted . |
| 5 | Being an occasional reviewer himself he was praised by other reviewers who were also creative writers on the old ‘ you scratch me ’ principle . |
| 6 | It 's a perfectly honourable exercise in which he is engaged . |
| 7 | The things he says are right , and they explain his popularity , but ho he says them explains the certain wariness with which he is regarded . |
| 8 | And on page 832 , Elizabeth Kemf , who helped translate the article , introduces this WWF Gold Medal winner from a necessarily less modest , third-person viewpoint , and explains the esteem with which he is regarded both in his own country and in the world conservation movement . |
| 9 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 10 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 11 | In a brief concluding chapter it is shown how study of the human impact can lead to wise management but also that man and nature are difficult to separate , that man is not always responsible for some of the changes with which he is credited , and that environmental impact statements of any kind are difficult to make . |
| 12 | The neurotic can not be compared with a magician , for example , in a traditional society , for the latter learns his role from the culture into which he is born . |
| 13 | He may be naturally drawn towards a discovery of a state which does not depend on time and space for its reality , but the medium of the imperfect world into which he is born means that : Such knowing and feeling , the mystics say , is given in response to a process — an ordering of the drives in human nature so that they can be expressed as love . |
| 14 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 15 | As far as one can assess the merit of Levin 's text in relation to its subject , it seems somewhat implausible that Debord can be all the things for which he is proclaimed . |
| 16 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 17 | However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company . |
| 18 | And he will look at the plans for the oil refinery which he is destined to build on this land . |
| 19 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 20 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 21 | The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there . |
| 22 | The duty is in s. 2(2) of the Act : The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted to be there . |
| 23 | A is a trustee of property for B , i.e. A has a legal right which he is bound to use for B's benefit ; B is said to have an equitable right to it or an equitable estate in it . |
| 24 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 25 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) No liability shall arise by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above if — ( a ) before the date on which proceedings to enforce the liability are finally disposed of , the former residential occupier is reinstated in the premises in question in such circumstances that he becomes again the residential occupier of them ; or ( b ) at the request of the former residential occupier , a court makes an order ( whether in the nature of an injunction or otherwise ) as a result of which he is reinstated as mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above … |
| 27 | Any student who wishes to submit a medical certificate shall arrange with his doctor for the certificate to be forwarded directly to the course director or senior course tutor for the course on which he is enrolled . |
| 28 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 29 | He swims in the 50m butterfly , for which he is ranked No 3 in Britain , and hopes to compete in other events . |
| 30 | if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by ( 1 ) an independent surveyor acting as an expert appointed in default of agreement by the President or ( 2 ) at the election of either party ( made not later than the making of an application to the President for an appointment time being of the essence ) by the person ( if any ) appointed to determine the rent payable under the headlease acting in the capacity in which he is appointed thereunder |