Example sentences of "which he [verb] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But erm police went to visit him again , and says erm you know that 's it , you know , you wo n't , wo n't , you wo n't even be needed to make a statement about where you found it , which he thought was a bit funny . |
2 | In his will he left sizeable sums for schools he had built in his home parishes , as well as for Christ 's Hospital , of which he had been a donation governor in 1833 . |
3 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
4 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
5 | Lord Bridge then gave his reasons for acknowledging that the Court of Appeal , of which he had been a member , in De Falco v. Crawley Borough Council was wrong to hold that a challenge to a housing authority 's decision on intentional homelessness could be made by action as well as by judicial review , and continued , at p. 294 : |
6 | I wanted to include his doctors and nurses at both hospitals in which he had been a patient , and our friends in the residential home . |
7 | He bequeathed his valuable genealogical collections to the Society of Antiquaries , of which he had been a fellow since 1901 . |
8 | In 1965 he resigned from Sinn Féin , of which he had been a vice-president , because of its refusal to recognise the legitimacy of both governments in Ireland . |
9 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
10 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
11 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not able to join us in Committee because I have enjoyed his contributions in previous Committees of which he has been a member . |
12 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |
13 | At the doctor 's I generally last four minutes before collapsing whilst trying to describe the muscle pain which he knows is a muscle pain but which I know he 's only saying is a muscle pain to disguise the seriousness of his true diagnosis . |