Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is with trifles and when he is off-guard that a man best reveals his character . ’ |
| 2 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 3 | He is convinced that a Cabinet minister is plotting against him and determined to find out who it is . |
| 4 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 5 | A complaint must be made in writing to a councillor of the authority concerned for forwarding to the commissioner , although the commissioner may consider a complaint direct if he is satisfied that a councillor has been requested to pass it on , and has failed to do so . |
| 6 | He is more than a year older than Emma , but he lives in Dorset , an area which does n't encourage early school entry . |
| 7 | On Wednesday , Taylor hopes they can make fools out of World Cup rivals Turkey because , with David Batty out , Palmer looks certain of an eighth cap and the chance to prove he is more than a court jester . |
| 8 | Yet the real strength of Lloyd Webber , says Black , is that he is more than a composer . |
| 9 | He 's two and a half |
| 10 | Well all the better for the breastfeeding — Do you know , Inverdarroch her wee Roderick-dhu , he 's four and a half … |
| 11 | Well , wee Roderick-dhu though , he 's four and a half and she still breastfeeds him . |
| 12 | He 's straight as a die . |
| 13 | Jonathon Love was born with dwarfism , and spent several years in a wheelchair … but now he 's more than a foot taller than nature had intended . |
| 14 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
| 15 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
| 16 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 17 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
| 18 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 19 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 20 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
| 21 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
| 22 | He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself . |
| 23 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
| 24 | ‘ He was mischievous and a bit of a tearaway . |
| 25 | A letter card came from France , but it told them little except that he was well and a letter followed . |
| 26 | He was young and a butterfly , flitting from branch to branch and all the time climbing . |
| 27 | ‘ He was unruly and a distraction in class and made an enemy of most of his teachers . |
| 28 | He was confident that a letter to the government in Peking would secure us a gift from the People 's Republic of a brace of breeding yaks . |
| 29 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
| 30 | Since he successfully sued The Face for alleging he was gay and a hypocrite for denying it , he has attracted a lot of abuse . |