Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] the " 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 He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America .
7 ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor .
8 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
9 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 .
10 He is given the land of Canaan as his children 's inheritance .
11 ( 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 …
12 He is given the room key for room number 210 and is courteously shown to his room .
13 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 .
14 ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment , or to win money by betting .
15 And this is God 's purpose , he is given the Holy Spirit and he has not withdrawn him .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 If he is afforded the slightest respect it makes him worse , larger . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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