Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 2 | After all , he is one of the last survivors of a disappearing people ; he belongs to a tribe whose main characteristic is that its members do not own a television set . |
| 3 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 4 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 5 | ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . " |
| 6 | Sheffield Wednesday 's chief goalscorer made it nine from 13 games in the defeat of QPR but later revealed he is happy for the first time this season . |
| 7 | He thought , briefly , about the police and the Fleet Air Arm , but when he was halfway through the sixth form , he discovered communications studies . |
| 8 | But he was friendly at the next GP and apologised . ’ |
| 9 | On June 2 Stefano Rodota , president of the PDS and former Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , resigned from both posts after he was unsuccessful in the first four ballots for Speaker . |
| 10 | Ballesteros knew 10 days in advance that he was due on the 1st tee at 9.45 a.m . |
| 11 | ‘ You think they 'll find he was absent on the eleventh as well as the sixth ? ’ |
| 12 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 13 | He made no secret of his Francophile enthusiasms , in reaction to the earlier domination of American music by Germans , and he was one of the first writers to register the importance of jazz . |
| 14 | With no real power-base of his own , he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace . |
| 15 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 16 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 17 | He was one of the first British footballers to play in the highly competitive Italian league and throughout his short stay in Turin he regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside actresses like Sophia Loren and Gina Lollibrigida , as part of Italy 's mythical La Dolce Vita : the sweet-life of cappuccino , Ferraris and Gucci shoes . |
| 18 | He was one of the first deaf people to join the British Deaf Association . |
| 19 | He was one of the first showbiz stars to arrive in the Falklands during the conflict . |
| 20 | Arguing that machines must be adapted to men , rather than men to machines , he was one of the first to recognize the importance of a versatile work-force , adjusted from an early age to job transference in later life , within a flexible environment which allowed movement between jobs ( Le Gros Clark 1954b ) . |
| 21 | Yet he recognised the depths that Burton was drawing on — ‘ the Welshness ’ — and he was one of the first to spot and to note the uncanny , superstitious , even mystical relationship he had with his talent . |
| 22 | Born in 1903 , the son of a painter and brother of an actor , he was one of the first staff of the Courtauld Institute when it was founded in 1933 . |
| 23 | Appropriately , he was one of the first to appreciate the work of Richard Wilson 's fellow countryman and contemporary , Thomas Jones . |
| 24 | He was one of the first passengers on MARTA , the Atlanta underground , when it opened in 1979 , rode the new tube in Fukuoka two years later and in the following year watched the building of MMTA in Baltimore and the metro in Caracas . |
| 25 | Desperate for cash following the Swedish debacle , he was one of the first to take on commercial sponsorship by negotiating a less than lucrative deal with Lovetts Panty Hose Ltd , and solely responsible for the bankrupting record fiasco when , at crippling expense , the team took on the guise of the Whaddon Promotion All Stars , and released a record , Go Go Athletic-O . |
| 26 | All the time he was in business he was improving the design of his optical instruments , and he was one of the first to make inexpensive achromatic microscopes . |
| 27 | He was one of the first to seek evidence in the field for the concept of natural selection held by Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] , maintaining ( then heretically ) that a species ' behaviour was as characteristic of it as any morphological feature . |
| 28 | He was one of the first sculptors in England to sign his work , and he had a thriving practice , several families , among them the Shireburns of Mitton , Lancashire , and the Brownlows of Belton , commissioning him more than once . |
| 29 | He was one of the first to produce high-intensity electric light from arc lamps taking current from dynamos ( 1865 ) , which he developed into searchlights for the Royal Navy ( 1874 ) ; after the Titanic disaster in 1912 he strongly urged that mercantile vessels should be fitted with searchlights . |
| 30 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |