Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The how we come to Jesus , the why 's we come to him are not the important thing , the real issue is that we come to him . |
| 2 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 3 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 4 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 5 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 6 | At first , the father 's contribution ( and we are here making the assumption that he is not the principal parent ) does not have a differential impact on boys and on girls . |
| 7 | He is not the only person to have responded on this point , which just shows how powerful anecdotes can be as memory aids . |
| 8 | He is not the only man in the BBC with much to fear . |
| 9 | Flying Scot Colin McRae is third , but Malcolm Wilson showed his highly-rated compatriot that he is not the only Briton gunning for the Pounds 100,000 jackpot being offered by sponsors Lombard for a home winner . |
| 10 | 'Twill be well because he is not the real thing , never could be , and is not even now presuming to be ; but conversely , 'twill be well because the imitation , the travesty , of the real thing can also usurp it and to all intents and purposes become it . |
| 11 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 12 | He is not the first Cabinet minister from Shotts . |
| 13 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 14 | A quietly-spoken man , he is not the pushy type of manager who makes sure the sandwiches are folded properly backstage or that the plectrums are of the right elasticity . |
| 15 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 16 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 17 | ‘ He is not the same lad on stage . |
| 18 | ‘ He is not the very model of a husband . ’ |
| 19 | Ben seems to forget that he is not the only one in the world to be making progress , that it is not just the routes he puts up which are the difficult ones , and that he is n't the best climber there is . |
| 20 | He is n't the first man to leave his wife and , though I understand your instinct to protect your sister , surely she could and should fight her own battles ? ’ |
| 21 | he 's changed a lot , you know , he is n't the same person , you know he 's sort of more humble |
| 22 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 23 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 24 | I hope he will sign a new contract because I believe he is probably the best target man in Britain . |
| 25 | He is probably the best example of a belief often expressed about the presidency — that the man holding the office grows in stature to fit the highest position in the nation . |
| 26 | His lawyer reckons he is probably the youngest person on Death Row in the world . |
| 27 | That takes Shearer 's tally to 10 goals in 10 games and he is also the Premier League 's leading scorer . |
| 28 | He is also the only intellectual in a town full of morons , except for Major Scott ( T. P. McKenna ) and the well-meaning vicar ( Colin Welland ) . |
| 29 | He is also the regular panelist along with Eamon Dumphey ( former Milwall ‘ player ’ ) on all the Irish international games . |
| 30 | He is also the honoured fellow entrusted with the task of pulling together ‘ Rubaiyat ’ , the 38-track celebration of Elektra 's 40th anniversary . |