Example sentences of "be [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 2 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 3 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 4 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 5 | Well I just feel no matter sentence he serves he 's always going to be that he 's left my daughter with a life sentence . |
| 6 | Kinnock 's weakness , he riposted thoughtfully , may be that he is becoming too autocratic . |
| 7 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 8 | It might be that he was speaking the truth , but before she could answer footsteps sounded along the passage , and they both faced the door as his mother came reluctantly in . |
| 9 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |
| 10 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 11 | I mean the rumours were that he was gon na go to Cheam , he was supposed to be Saturdays for Cheam . |
| 12 | His voice was muffled by something — could it be that he was smoking a cigar even whilst disembodied ? |
| 13 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 14 | ‘ Well all I 'm tellin' you , Pat , is that he 's made a lot of enemies . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea is that he 's stopped for good . ’ |
| 16 | You know , it 's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension schemes , papers are gon na flood through the door and annual reports and that sort of thing and it seems to me that all of Goods th the way that this , this pension regulator is deemed to act is that he 's expecting the auditors and the actuaries to whistle blow and |
| 17 | Now , as one New York dealer put it a week ago , ‘ the word is that he 's cashing in . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Because my impression is that he 's using the privacy of the consulting room to hide something . |
| 19 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |
| 20 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 21 | It 's a strange journey Paul Weller 's made , but stranger still is that he 's managed to take the greater part of his audience along with him . |
| 22 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 23 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 24 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps the best thing is that he is reacting to noises and the sound of his name . |
| 26 | It is no secret that Slobodan Milosevic [ the Serbian President ] is psychologically a self-destructive , suicidal type , but the trouble is that he is transferring his suicidal madness onto the nation as a whole . |
| 27 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 28 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 29 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 30 | ‘ What he is hoping , by blurting out such nonsense , is that he is keeping his finger firmly on the self-destruct button for the British monarchy . ’ |