Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 2 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 3 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 4 | Ive always liked him , and said that all he lacked was the domineering touch . |
| 5 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 6 | However , since then , Walsh , Gloucestershire 's beneficiary for 1992 , has not only enjoyed the best Test match spell of his career but , in revitalised fashion , he has been the early pace-setter by some margin in the English first-class bowling averages . |
| 7 | One of the most important trends of the past 20 years in HE has been the increased participation of women . |
| 8 | One of the major factors influencing forecasts of the demand for HE has been the social class of the entrant . |
| 9 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 10 | Outside the House of Commons , he has been the Scottish editor for the Sunday Times since 1987 . |
| 11 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 12 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 13 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 14 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 16 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 17 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 18 | That was until Norman Tebbit spotted what he believed was the biggest chance of holing the impenetrable protective layer around the bill . |
| 19 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 20 | The gráwe roc he wears is the seamless robe Christ wore to the Crucifixion ; in the end Orendel becomes der Graurock , ‘ Greycloak ’ , is identified with his garment . |
| 21 | The earliest he cites is the first side of ‘ A Miniature Concert ’ , recorded on 26 February 1925 and issued on Victor 35753 ( and in Britain on Zonophone A302 ) . |
| 22 | However even in other countries the honour he gets is the wrong sort . |
| 23 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |
| 24 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 25 | Thomson also wrote Europe since Napoleon ( 1957 ) and a World History from 1914 to 1968 ( 1969 , 1st edn. to 1950 , 1954 ) , while among the books that he edited was the controversial volume xii of the Cambridge Modern History . |
| 26 | At 11.00 he found what he thought was the relevant passage in Vico . |
| 27 | He began to run in what he thought was the right direction , but he did n't recognise any of the buildings . |
| 28 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 29 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 30 | That he could get all these to find out what he thought was the best policy in in your |