Example sentences of "[conj] he be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
| 2 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 3 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 4 | Palace 's former England forward struck a glorious goal to serve Graham Taylor notice that he 's worth another try . |
| 5 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 6 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 7 | In theory , the student protester will say that he is against any and all instances of injustice , inhumanity , exploitation , colonialism , violence , limitation of freedom of speech , or whatever ( the list is a long one ! ) . |
| 8 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 9 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 10 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 11 | He said that he was against that . |
| 12 | This time the wily Belgian was not on board and it was never proved that he was behind this particular incident . |
| 13 | And the fellow who told her that he was from another planet . |
| 14 | Not that he was in much danger of noticing . |
| 15 | JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively . |
| 16 | Again , the visitor to Thorikos , if taken there blindfold from the real city-state of Euboian Eretria , might well find it hard to tell the two apart , and might think that he was in another place with the same independent status : there is a fortified acropolis , a theatre and a temple — just as at Eretria . |
| 17 | But it must not be thought that he was in this alone in his society : there were others also who were not . |
| 18 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 19 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
| 20 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 21 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 22 | Alternatively , is the right hon. Gentleman implying — as I thought that he was in some of his remarks — that legal aid would be generally available to those appearing before adjudicators or tribunals , and that they could secure representation from any part of the legal profession ? |
| 23 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 24 | Not that he was in any way merry — I 'd merely triggered off his own insomniac hysteria and his laughter quickly subsided into a sort of drained whimpering . |
| 25 | It does n't seem to me from what I read of page thirty one of that inspector 's report that he was in any different position by the absence of the Policy E two than he would be if he 'd got it . |
| 26 | He spoke with the fervour of discovery , unaware it seems that he was by this date , imperially speaking , reinventing the wheel . |
| 27 | That he was like that . |
| 28 | ‘ You would n't think that he was like that , ’ Stok said . |
| 29 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 30 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |