Example sentences of "he be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 2 | ‘ Fighters who have been in with him are never the same again , ’ he said last week . |
| 3 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 4 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 5 | You have the sense to realise that taking out your anger on him is not the answer and will threaten your relationship . |
| 6 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 7 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 8 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 9 | His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the ‘ poor white ’ to the ‘ niggers ’ in the former slave states of the U.S.A … . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most interesting thing about him was not the conclusion he reached , but the way he reached it . |
| 11 | That for him was not the problem , however . |
| 12 | What concerned him was not the brutality but the fact that it had taken place while the Corporals were drunk . |
| 13 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 14 | " Count Munichhausen " who " supplied " him was probably the Premierminister des Kurfurstentums Hannover , Adolph Freiherr von Munchhausen ( 1698–1770 ) ( not the " Lugendbaron " Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen notorious for the mendacity of his tales of his military exploits ! ) . |
| 15 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 16 | Maybe he should go back , but inside him was still the lump of anger against them . |
| 17 | Her feeling for him was now the breath and life of Tess 's being . |
| 18 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 19 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 20 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 21 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 22 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 23 | He is not the despot portrayed in the West . |
| 24 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 25 | Soon we learn he is not the son of the promise , nor is Hagar to be the mother of that child . |
| 26 | ‘ He is not the very model of a husband . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He is not the most robust horse but I knew he was in good shape . |
| 28 | ‘ He is not the same lad on stage . |
| 29 | A quietly-spoken man , he is not the pushy type of manager who makes sure the sandwiches are folded properly backstage or that the plectrums are of the right elasticity . |
| 30 | He is not the type to go to the pub and just pick someone up . |