Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 768 Alhred married Osgifu , daughter of King Oswulf ( 758–9 ) , presumably an attempt to strengthen the dynastic aspirations of both families by a judicious alliance , and the indications are that he made an effort to behave in a way appropriate to his new position . |
| 2 | Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony . |
| 3 | It was n't entirely true but it could very well have been and he showed no surprise . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the financial arrangements are but he has a double role , he attends the classes but he also does spinal manipulation and massage for those of Brand 's clients who need it or say they do . ’ |
| 5 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 6 | So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix . |
| 7 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 8 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 9 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 10 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |
| 11 | An appropriate valedictory comment on W. C. T. might be that he underwent a dramatic rags-to-riches transformation , conveniently abandoning the Dissenting zeal of his ancestors in the process . |
| 12 | He was once asked what he considered the function of a chairman to be and he gave a three-part answer : |
| 13 | That , however , would be because he had no other remedy . |
| 14 | He did n't know where it could be as he felt no pain except a slight stitch when he did aerobics . |
| 15 | He was alone — or as alone as the owner of a large enterprise can be when he has a case full of unanswered letters , of contracts awaiting perusal or signature , of complaints , of surveys , of claims , of excuses and explanations , of alarms and false alarms . |
| 16 | Ashton described the innocence , piety and wonder of the Bride at the event to be when he created the exquisitely detailed hand movements in The Wise Virgins , as he did for La Péri and Madame Chrysanthème . |
| 17 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 18 | oh they were cos he got a guarantee slip with it |
| 19 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 20 | And erm being as he put a new table in the mill he thought we could work for thirty pound a week less , on this table . |
| 21 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 22 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 23 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 24 | The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor 's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching . |
| 25 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 26 | ‘ His weakness , ’ the critic C. A. Lejeune perceptively remarked , ‘ is that he plays a lone hand . |
| 27 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 28 | He is rated among the best in the team in the papers , and my guess is that he gets a chance as striker in the next match against Costa Rica wednesday night . |
| 29 | What is interesting about Mark , however , is that he rejects the values of the physics department in their entirety , as well as what he perceives as the values of academic life generally . |
| 30 | One criticism of Barro 's approach to the estimation and testing of the rational expectations model is that he employs a two-stage estimation procedure and this is not statistically efficient . |