Example sentences of "he [be] the son " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on Earth can he be the son of God , because God did n't have a wife . |
| 2 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 3 | Aged 29 , he is the son of academics , educated at Cambridge . |
| 4 | He is the son of a blind mother in suburban London who hears from his policeman father ( James Fox ) of attacks on blind women . |
| 5 | He is the son and heir of Marquess Conynghan , 67 , who also has the title Lord Minster . |
| 6 | He is the son of the previous laibon and the brother of the man who was hanged . |
| 7 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 8 | " He is the son of the friend of my aunt . |
| 9 | He is the son of Sir Charles Baskerville 's younger brother , who died some years ago . |
| 10 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |
| 11 | ‘ He is the son and not the servant . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 13 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 14 | ‘ He 's not my grandson , he 's the son of the woman I lodge with — , |
| 15 | " He 's the son of a very good business friend of ours , who 's sent him to school at Sales Abbey , that 's with the Benedictines , and he 's currently returning home , he has permission to leave school early this term for some reason and return home . " |
| 16 | ‘ He 's the son of Earl Sigurd , ’ said Eochaid . |
| 17 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 18 | He 's the son of , Maxwell 's son . |
| 19 | He was the son of a Cambridge don . |
| 20 | He was the son of a clergyman , the brother of the Archdeacon of Grahamstown and the brother-in-law of the Bishop of Madagascar . |
| 21 | Ernest Betjemann , however , who built Undertown , was in trade ; he was the son of a cabinetmaker and managed a prosperous business manufacturing inlaid cigar boxes and elaborate cocktail cabinets for Maharajas . |
| 22 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
| 23 | He was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Morton . |
| 24 | He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters . |
| 25 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 26 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |
| 27 | He revisits his birthplace in Port Talbot , where he was the son of a fiery Welsh baker who was himself a frustrated actor . |
| 28 | Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black . |
| 29 | Which former Hereford United goalkeeper and prospective parliamentary candidate announced he was the son of God , then said he was a snowplough instead ? |
| 30 | Ray Shepherd 's obsessive grudge against Sakata did n't worry Jack too much ; he was kind to him , even if he was the son of a manager and a southerner as well . |