Example sentences of "[be] that he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 2 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 3 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 4 | It may even be that he receive Dalriadic assistance . |
| 5 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 6 | One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture . |
| 7 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 8 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 9 | The point about an adult citizen is that he has these rights , privileges , duties and responsibilities whether or not he wants them . |
| 10 | ‘ The great thing about Robbo is that he brings that bit extra out of people , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 11 | The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival . |
| 12 | The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others . |
| 13 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 14 | One reason , no doubt , was that he had little tolerance for real pagan myths or for naïve mythicizers . |
| 15 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 16 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 17 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 18 | When I spoke to him , Hall said the great thing about his show was that he let black artists speak for themselves , in their own voices . |
| 19 | The only difference was that he trained more winners than most of them did . |
| 20 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 21 | When Mr Stephens went out to buy more provisions for tea — though his excuse offered was that he needed some tobacco — John sat in chair on one side of the kitchen , Emily stood by the window on the other side , both on their best behaviour . |