Example sentences of "that he [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the tenant should insist that he be given a reasonable rent-free period in which to find a new subtenant . |
| 2 | The King of Blefuscu has always wanted to defeat Lilliput in war , and now we hear that he 's prepared a large number of ships , which will attack us very soon . |
| 3 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 4 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 5 | He says that he 's joined a few agencies , with no luck . |
| 6 | Manager Elliott Roberts has arrived with news that he 's found a new room with a jacuzzi bath . |
| 7 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 8 | It was because of this interest that he was awarded a Red Cross medal for services rendered to the sick and wounded during the Franco-Prussian war . |
| 9 | Cotton topped the bill at the London Coliseum in 1939 and was such a hit that he was offered a 16-week provincial tour , never realised because of the Second World War . |