Example sentences of "[vb pp] that he [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's claimed that he was secretly paid commission for awarding work to three firms in Italy , Germany and Norway . |
| 2 | Observers have commented that he is less tolerant and sympathetic when dealing with them than with other colleagues or outsiders . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 4 | The priest had guessed that he was well aware of the object of this visit . |
| 5 | Alfred Rosmer gave an amusing but enlightening insight into Bukharin 's character and role in 1920 , and let it be recalled that he was only 32 years old in that year . |
| 6 | Mr Barre 's writ is so limited that he is disparagingly known as the mayor of Mogadishu . |
| 7 | Having heard that he was much respected and had great influence in these parts , I felt it was as well to do as he told us . |
| 8 | But he , he managed to get his extension to his permit because he had these English connections and the paper he was on reckoned that he was very valuable to them and so they |
| 9 | It evidently included an assertion that the local authority had wrongly decided that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 10 | He had played a successful hand under Æthelred , and maintained his position in the fighting of 1015 – 16 , but Cnut , perhaps with the encouragement of his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton , who retained some sort of recognised position even after his marriage to Emma of Normandy , and whose father Eadric had overthrown , clearly decided that he was too powerful and dangerous to be tolerated further . |
| 11 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |
| 12 | But he had felt that he was still the same Mark Underwood , drearily going through the motions of belief instead of drearily going through the motions of disbelief ; that the searing , galvanic experience men called conversion was like an unexploded bomb ticking away inside him . |
| 13 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 14 | Stamping his passport , the customs official had revealed that he was also a registered opponent of the Hinkley C plan . |
| 15 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 16 | He would have said that he was as courageous as most , but he knew that no one ever escaped from the workshops . |
| 17 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 18 | Although the lie itself could not alter his nationality , it would be argued that he was now , for practical purposes , amenable to the laws of treason . |
| 19 | He had now firmly ascertained that he was too important to kill . |
| 20 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 21 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 22 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 23 | On August 6 … he reported to an officer in London and was told that he was just in time to catch the 3.06 p.m. train to Bletchley where he would be met by someone . |
| 24 | Anyway , he was told that he was no longer being considered for flying , and when he turned up at Bourn he was an ordinary AC2 , with no flash in his cap , and was put on General Duties , which seemed to consist , most of the time , of cleaning out the ablutions . |
| 25 | But again I was told that he was away from the office , and a girl who said she was his secretary could give no clear indication of when he was expected back . |
| 26 | and from what I understood he was already married anyway , never , never was mentioned here , but I did hear it , whether it was true or not I 'm not say it , but I was told that he was already married and divorced to marry her , that was what I was told , no I mean I do n't know , but but I 'm damn sure that I know |
| 27 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 28 | But today , when he did n't appear at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in London , the court was told that he was still unfit . |
| 29 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 30 | On the one hand Mrs Singh was told that his drawing and writing were immature , that he was still drawing and writing like a very young child ; yet later she was told that he was very good with a pencil and talented at art ! |