Example sentences of "that he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 2 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 3 | Andrew Beattie 's ‘ allegations ’ were , first , that he had been a member of a gang which had murdered the teenage boy ind girl at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. in the previous February and , second , that he had hijacked vehicles for road blocks during the UWC general strike . |
| 4 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 5 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 6 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 7 | It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie . |
| 8 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 9 | ‘ I just do n't want an apartheid government in Namibia , ’ said Naftali Herunga , who confided that he had been a soldier , serving in 102 Battalion — an ethnic Herero unit — under the South Africans . |
| 10 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 11 | All that he has is a right to apply for postponement under section 5(2) . |