Example sentences of "he be [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 2 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 3 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 4 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 5 | Taken from the Zulu people who helped nurture him , he is sent to a brutish Boer boarding school . |
| 6 | Since , as we have seen , Adorno overestimates the homogeneity of culture under advanced capitalism , he is led to a similar interpretation of popular musical form . |
| 7 | He is attached to an artificial ventilator which ventilates his lungs , and his heart is beating . |
| 8 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 9 | I remember Malc 's rum punch days ( rum — and punch anything ) and his Yorkshire lad days ( 14 pints , a black pudding and domino puke ) ; now he 's matured to a steady G. & T. In the absence of Lucozade I order a Coke and Kenneth a beer , and after ten minutes of chat we leave for our appointment , promising to rejoin them later . |
| 10 | ‘ But although he 's working to a different rhythm to everyone else , he always gets results . ’ |
| 11 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 12 | At the end of November 1990 he was placed by his mother in the voluntary care of the local authority and on 5 December 1990 he was moved to an open unit but which has an attached secure unit . |
| 13 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |
| 14 | G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 . |
| 15 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 16 | They became worried later on when Guy 's temperature went up dramatically , so he was transferred to a local major hospital . |
| 17 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 18 | For daring to speak out , he was assigned to a menial post unrelated to his speciality and skills . |
| 19 | He was to go to a certain address on a certain day — the following day — at a certain hour . |
| 20 | He was pointing to a large man on the other side of the gangway who was slumped back in his seat clutching his chest ; his face was grey and his forehead beaded with perspiration . |
| 21 | To endorse this he was writing to a young Quaker girl in Norwich with the intention of marriage . |
| 22 | Mr Payne , 48 , a Mid Glamorgan paramedic , made the grim discovery when he was called to a two-car smash at Deri , near Bargoed . |
| 23 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 24 | A minute or two later he was speaking to a suave gentleman anxious to steer a safe course between Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 25 | He was speaking to a bald-headed man . |
| 26 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 27 | Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School . |
| 28 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 29 | The Land court in Offenburg ruled on May 7 that Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , who had attempted to assassinate Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was mentally unfit to stand trial ; he was sent to a closed psychiatric hospital . |
| 30 | After a family move to Hampstead when he was eight , he was sent to a local preparatory school , then to Highgate School , where he was a prefect , much liked by the other boys for his honesty and uprightness . |