Example sentences of "him [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ecclesiastical superiors had deemed him unfit to be a priest . |
| 2 | That the people of Sheila na gigh could rise from the ashes of their homes and join together in a celebration , a unity in the face of such adversity , made him proud to be a Celt . |
| 3 | This callousness was repeated later when she cruelly promoted the young Krishnamurti as the new ‘ Lord Maitreya ’ , allowing him first to be abused by the theosophical pederast Charles Leadbeater and later sent to Harrow . |
| 4 | I do n't think Billy 's telling him enough to be honest . |
| 5 | A woman , someone like Irene , I know , would have found him horrible to be near . |
| 6 | When a storm disabled his ship in 1654 he was dismayed by the thought that God might have judged him unworthy to be an instrument . |
| 7 | Section 2(5) of the 1959 Act reads : " A person shall not be convicted of an offence against this section ( ie the offence of publishing obscene material ) if he proves that he had not examined the article in respect of which he is charged and had no reasonable cause to suspect that it was such that his publication of it would make him liable to be convicted of an offence against this section . " |