Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded . |
| 2 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 3 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |
| 4 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |
| 5 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 6 | ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor . |
| 7 | He is worshipped the world over as a male fan-tasy figure in classic movies like The Good The Bad And The Ugly , A Fistful Of Dollars and The Man With |
| 8 | He is no more likely to be provoked into acts of violence , even though he is made the subject of abusive and insulting remarks and conduct , and it is suggested that in this respect the law remains precisely the same . |
| 9 | He is given the land of Canaan as his children 's inheritance . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — … ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment … |
| 11 | Priority for training : when an investor opens a franchise , he is given the opportunity to acquire specialist skills through a training course covering all aspects of the business from personnel management to administration and from procurement to marketing . |
| 12 | ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment , or to win money by betting . |
| 13 | He is given the room key for room number 210 and is courteously shown to his room . |
| 14 | For example , it is often the case that the essential characteristic of a " slave " is not that he is in a servile position or economically disadvantaged but that , not being a kinsman , he is denied the rights of a full human being . |
| 15 | They attempt to direct the ball ‘ close to the batsman ’ so that he is denied the room to swing the bat freely and hit the ball hard . |
| 16 | Neither inspectors nor the police are entitled to demand a breathalyser test or a blood or urine sample from a surviving pilot who has had an aircraft accident — though if he is killed the coroner will never refuse permission for the pathologist to test the victim 's blood for alcohol content . |
| 17 | Many of his lower-deck characters were comic figures — Chucks the boatswain in Peter Simple , for example , whose passionate desire to be a gentleman is satisfied when in return for his help with the newly constituted Danish Navy he is awarded the title of Count Schucksen , or Muddle the carpenter in the same book , who believes the world works in a repeating cycle of 27,672 years . |
| 18 | He is synonymous with the success we have achieved and we would be very sad to see him go if he is offered the England post . |
| 19 | However , an individual selling shareholder is treated ( subject as mentioned below ) as having received a capital element and , to the extent that the company is deemed to have made a distribution , an income element when he is paid the purchase price . |
| 20 | When such an accident occurs the pilot , or if he is incapacitated the owner or operator of the aircraft , is required to notify the Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 21 | There is a convention in the House that if an hon. Member is attacked by a Front-Bench Member , he is allowed the opportunity to reply . |
| 22 | One member of the party is selected as the defendant : he is told the outline of an alibi defence and has to fill in the details impromptu under questioning . |
| 23 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 24 | A few miles further on , the eleven-year-old fell asleep in his saddle and Gloucester , unwilling to call a halt at that stage and thus delay their entry into London , insisted that he be conveyed the rest of the way in a horse-drawn litter . |
| 25 | Although he 's survived the cancer so far , it has n't altered the fact that he will probably be in a wheelchair by the age of 10 — or that A-T could kill him before he 's 20 , unless a cure is found . |
| 26 | He 's played the US from New York to Nashville , but despite being ‘ discovered ’ at least once a year he 's still no household name . |
| 27 | ‘ Unless he 's played the stock market with great brilliance . ’ |
| 28 | He 's garnered the accolades and the money that have come his way by being good at his job , by knowing his strengths , and by a modicum of luck . |
| 29 | So , to a degree , he 's earned the shit he gets , because of the way he 's manipulated the media — but it 's true , a lot of the criticism in the UK is stupid , really B-grade stuff . |
| 30 | I believe he 's called the Under-Secretary of State . ’ |