Example sentences of "[that] he be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our friend here does not seem to appreciate that the world 's greatest detective is conducting a criminal investigation and that he is not to be thwarted . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr. H. is well known in public assistance circles , and the Ministry have issued a circular that he is not to be accorded any special treatment . |
| 3 | He is leading a Kings Kids Christmas tour in Ayrshire but before that he is off to Albania to look at opportunities of taking a team there in Summer ‘ 93 . |
| 4 | It can become difficult to get such a patient to accept that he is back to normal as he has no milepost to reach . |
| 5 | HAPPY Prince Andrew has a ball on the golf course … unaware that he is about to be at the centre of a new royal taping scandal . |
| 6 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |
| 7 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 8 | Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château . |
| 9 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 11 | So Asshe had given instructions that he was not to be let in . |
| 12 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 13 | This sensitive , intelligent and finely-made man sometimes allowed her to sit in his room while he practised the piano , on the understanding that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 14 | Christina left him in Todney 's office with a gnawing suspicion that he was up to something . |
| 15 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 16 | She had the decided feeling that he was on to her , and she had n't even started yet . |
| 17 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 18 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 19 | Eileen was home on leave when a letter came from Terry to tell them that he was off to France . |
| 20 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 21 | When he looked for his money , he found that he was down to his last few shillings . |
| 22 | It was deliberately provocative because she was disappointed that he was back to antagonism after yesterday , and he shot a startled glance at her before giving a low , dark laugh . |
| 23 | The drummer claims he had no idea that he was about to be sacked and was shocked to hear the news . |
| 24 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 25 | As to Mrs. Steed 's ignorance of the power of attorney , if she was ignorant of it , the ignorance was attributable to Mr. Steed 's incomprehensible failure to tell her either that he was about to or that he had made the appointment . |
| 26 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |
| 27 | He had seemed thrown for a moment , as though it had genuinely slipped his mind that he was about to be married . |