Example sentences of "[pron] he be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got to be Coptic , of course , and preferably someone he 's met through the church . |
| 2 | Someone he 's met at Cannes ? |
| 3 | He told himself he was behaving like a fool , that his suspicions were groundless , but he did n't believe what he told himself any more . |
| 4 | Being an occasional reviewer himself he was praised by other reviewers who were also creative writers on the old ‘ you scratch me ’ principle . |
| 5 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 6 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 7 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 8 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 9 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 10 | Does he think that he is doing a good job in alerting the country to the rapid rate of convergence at which he is aiming in the exchange rate mechanism and the possible move towards European monetary union ? |
| 11 | According to Miller & Dollard ( 1941 ) , " The follower ( the student ) learns to model his behaviour on that of another ( the teacher ) through responding to cues of sameness , for which he is rewarded by a reduction of anxiety , and to cues of difference , which increase the strength of the anxiety drive . |
| 12 | So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source . |
| 13 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 14 | Ruling over an infernal world , the President is cast in the role of Satan , while his favourite , Angel Face , is identified with Lucifer , but his rebellion takes the form of forsaking evil for good , a crime of treason for which he is banished to the bowels of the earth in the President 's deepest dungeon . |
| 15 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 16 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 17 | If we regard our guide as simply looking for advice as to what moral rules are correct , unrelated to a particular decision which he is called upon to make or to a particular situation in which he is involved then it will be impartiality of the first and last types which are particularly relevant : that is , the formal requirement that legislation is to be universalised , and the material requirement that the decisions made are based on a consideration of all relevant factors . |
| 18 | It is a great mistake to suppose that a solicitor can get along without having mastered the legal topics with which he is called upon to deal . |
| 19 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 20 | Such patients are not in legal custody by virtue of that section since they are not ‘ required or authorised by or by virtue of this Act to be conveyed to any place or to be kept in custody or detained in a place of safety or at any place to which he is taken under section 42(6) … . ‘ |
| 21 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 22 | Air France gained many improvements to their airline training programme by allowing them to : significantly reduce the duration of the training cycle , reduce the time between hiring the pilot and the point at which he is qualified for jet operations by at least one year , reduce type conversion hours by at least 10% , and make an improvement in the selection of pilots by providing a better assessment of trainee ability for heavy or medium jet aircraft . |
| 23 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
| 24 | Secondly , section 239 entitles any member or debentureholder to be furnished , on demand and without charge , with a copy of the last accounts in addition to that to which he is entitled under section 238 . |
| 25 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 26 | This is followed by a period during which he is trapped in London 's underworld of pickpockets , burglars , safe-breakers , and prostitutes , although the fence Fagin , who exploits these lesser criminals , is unable to destroy his innocence . |
| 27 | Cooper argues that utility may be a better approach ; that is , to measure the utility to the user of the documents with which he is brought into contract by the system . |
| 28 | Later , apparently unseen by others , she dances through the betrothal party at which he is confronted by Madge , the Witch , who foretells that he will never marry . |
| 29 | In each case the individual is identified either by the role which is relevant to the content of the article , or by the role by which he is known to the public . |
| 30 | In this respect Lenin did not underestimate the importance of creating the political preconditions for the control of bureaucratic structures , a failing of which he is accused by Erick Olin Wright ( 1978 ) . |