Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 5 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 13 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 14 | The unspoken allegation against Mr Delors is that he sabotaged the talks because of his support for French farmers who oppose any reduction in EC agriculture subsidies . |
| 15 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 16 | ‘ All I would say is that he deserves the chance to keep on going and defend his title . ’ |
| 17 | Bourdieu 's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies . |
| 18 | Althusser 's theoretical interest , on the other hand , is that he demonstrates the impossibility of any attempt simply to exclude , excise or extirpate Hegel . |
| 19 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 20 | If he is not ‘ cured ’ by the time he leaves school , she suggested to me , then the only solution to his ‘ problem ’ is that he enter the world of the arts , drama or music where ‘ that kind of behaviour ’ is much more acceptable . |
| 21 | Yes Mr Chairman I 'm not clear erm about something that Mr Gordon said in his opening remarks that I 'd like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words , omitting from the what is the British best if you like , erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft , both in development stage and at the production stage , final cost of the aircraft , unit cost . |
| 22 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
| 23 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 24 | This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence . |
| 25 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 26 | He wore a pencil moustache above which his nose twitched like a rabbit 's as he sniffed the wine glass he was holding . |
| 27 | The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world . |
| 28 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 29 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 30 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |