Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 2 | You say I ca n't go , and Father — well , look at him ; can you see him being taken to the Queen 's presence ? ’ |
| 3 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 4 | Only if the client is still unhappy would he be directed to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau . |
| 5 | Why was he being taken to a government building ? |
| 6 | Soering applied to the European Commission of Human Rights on the grounds that there was a serious likelihood that if he were extradited to the United States he would be executed . |
| 7 | Instead , he is limited to a sum which reflects the difference between what he actually paid for the property , and what the Court thinks he would have paid had he known of the defect at the time he bought it . |
| 8 | In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) . |
| 9 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 10 | He is called to the realisation that he is part of the force , the force is god , and therefore he is god . |
| 11 | When there is an appeal from the decision of the benchers , the judges of the Common Pleas join in sitting upon that appeal ; and if the candidate be called to the Bar , I say , he is called to the Bar — by the judges of the Common Pleas . |
| 12 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 13 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 14 | Predictably he is exposed to a series of character-forming reverses , but these are astonishingly tame . |
| 15 | Taken from the Zulu people who helped nurture him , he is sent to a brutish Boer boarding school . |
| 16 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 17 | For example , he is likened to a thief , but he actually wants to become a king , and speaks as if he were a Prince . |
| 18 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 19 | The rapid rise may suggest he is wedded to the bank . |
| 20 | With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Since , as we have seen , Adorno overestimates the homogeneity of culture under advanced capitalism , he is led to a similar interpretation of popular musical form . |
| 23 | He is introduced to the group by Jane , this month 's student chairperson and is handed an agenda ( collected from items submitted by students , support workers and staff ) , minutes and notes . |
| 24 | He is subcontracted to a factory , and receives 150 cruzeiros for each one ( about 10 cents ) ; these are sold to tourists at 100 times as much . |
| 25 | He is attached to an artificial ventilator which ventilates his lungs , and his heart is beating . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Then suddenly he is thrown to the wolves with the stigma of being incompetent , no good — even a fool . |
| 28 | Finally , he is drawn to the essence of Muir 's genius which he sees as that of ‘ the sensibility of the remote islander ’ , and the words that follow give one final transformation of the savage and city motif , when he describes Muir as ‘ the boy from a simple primitive offshore community who then was plunged into the sordid horror of industrialism in Glasgow , who struggled to understand the modern world of the metropolis in London … |
| 29 | He is drawn to the Ring and his thoughts are tortured by it . |
| 30 | Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast . |