Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb mod] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , over scientific matters he could be roused to considerable passion and was often tactless . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't tell Simon he could be going to be a father . |
| 3 | ‘ I was talking about some of the funny things that happen there and Mum said it was the sort of place he should be going to . ’ |
| 4 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 5 | On Sept. 27 former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry was resentenced to six months in prison for cocaine possession [ see p. 38330 ] , but would remain at liberty until federal authorities decided which penitentiary he should be sent to . |
| 6 | If Tapie was a fish he 'd be stuffed to the gills this issue ! |
| 7 | Because the 37-year-old peer is a civil prisoner , there is also a good chance he will be allocated to the jail 's C wing , where the cells have their own lavatories and wash basins , saving him the indignity of ‘ slopping out ’ . |
| 8 | As a civil case prisoner , there is a good chance he will be allocated to the jail 's C wing , where the cells have their own lavatories and wash basins . |
| 9 | This is in order to try to avoid the effects of subrogation , viz where the insurer pays out money to the landlord under an insurance policy he will be subrogated to any rights the landlord may have against the tenant for breaches of covenant which may have given rise to the damage or destruction . |
| 10 | Then he began to find it impossible to withdraw his mind from a vision of this house empty , and of the rooms he would be returning to . |
| 11 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 12 | The reformist politician has already been forced to make compromises in the new party programme he has drafted , and has even had to put up with seeing the dreaded word ‘ Marxism ’ inserted into the version he will be proposing to the delegates today . |
| 13 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 14 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |