Example sentences of "he [be] the author " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the author of two booklets and has a keen interest in meditation . |
| 2 | He is the author of numerous books and pamphlets on capitalism , industry and the enterprise culture . |
| 3 | He is the author of many books including ‘ A Student 's Guide to Unix ’ , published by McGraw-Hill College Division . |
| 4 | With Hahn , he is the author of ‘ Power Shortcuts , Quattro Pro from Windows ’ , published by MIS Press . |
| 5 | He is the author of the accompanying catalogue Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum ( £16.95 from the B.M. bookshop and £19.95 from other bookshops ) . |
| 6 | He is the author of Tribes With Flags and Money For Old Rope . |
| 7 | He is the author of two collections of poetry , Xanadu ( Bloodaxe , £5.95 ) and Kid ( Faber , £4.99 ) . |
| 8 | He is the author of Israel And The Arab Refusal . |
| 9 | He is the author of a number of books , including Travels in China — a Plantsman 's Paradise and Garden Plants for Connoisseurs . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’ |
| 11 | He is the author of THE KNOWLEDGE CONTEXT : COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF KNOWLEDGE . |
| 12 | It would have been ridiculous to write about Marilyn Monroe [ he is the author of Goddess ] without covering her sex life , or indeed to write a biography of anyone without discussing sexuality . |
| 13 | Because the person using the system brings an amount of skill to the task , it would not be unreasonable to suggest that he is the author . |
| 14 | He is the author of Islamic Art and Design 1500–1700' and is now Professor of Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies , London University . |
| 15 | Adebayo remembers his reaction : ‘ If you meet Victor you would n't believe he 's the author of a book , he looks more like a gangster . |
| 16 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 17 | This time he 's the author of book , music and lyrics , though he is undoubtedly well guided in this instance by arranger Eric Boyd , and there is some very fine music indeed . |
| 18 | Many would dismiss Peter Thompson 's pessimism out of hand were it not for the fact that he was the author of a paper in July 1987 , when the market was at its pre-crash high , called ‘ The End of the Long Bull Market ’ . |
| 19 | He was the author of some works on gardening , but he lacked the experience to produce a much needed comprehensive practical guide book . |
| 20 | He explained his predicament to the librarian but was told that the book was due to be pulped and it did not matter that he was the author . |
| 21 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 22 | He was the author of all this . |
| 23 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 24 | Built in 1787 , it was here in 1827 that Sir Walter Scott first publicly admitted that he was the author of the Waverley Novels . |
| 25 | Around 1760 his interests extended to chartered shipping with the East India Company and he was the author of two pamphlets , Reflections upon East India Shipping ( 1773 ) and A Candid State of Affairs Relative to the East India Shipping ( 1774 ) , which sharply criticized the company 's bad management . |
| 26 | He was the author of 170 major scientific publications and gave a number of important lectures . |
| 27 | He was the author of the 1985 Pressler Amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act , under which the US suspended all military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 [ see pp. 37764 ] . |