Example sentences of "he have [adv] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From day one he has just been a super example to everyone — from YTS players to internationals — with his performances in matches and in training . ’ |
| 2 | He has previously been a non-executive director of Fitness Daily PLC and Moving Wear PLC . |
| 3 | He has also been a non-executive chairman of Cable $ Wireless , chairman of the North American Advisor ) , Group , chairman of the Man-made Fibre Producers Committee and chairman of the European Synthetic Fibre Manufacturers . |
| 4 | He has also been a licensed gill-netter himself . |
| 5 | He has also been a fine advocate of the Piano Concerto , not so far recorded by him . |
| 6 | While Robinson was involved with Paisley and McQuade in the demonstrations against the invitation of Charles Haughey , then the Republic 's Prime Minister , to the enthronement of the Church of Ireland Primate in Armagh in May 1980 , he has not been a conspicuous street demonstrator . |
| 7 | He 'd always been a superb judge of character , but now he doubted himself . |
| 8 | From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division . |
| 9 | He said he had briefly been a Labour Party member in 1974 . |
| 10 | He had also been a close friend and political ally of Keating for more than 20 years , and had been influential in engineering Keating 's successful bid for the leadership in December 1991 [ see pp. 38675-76 ] . |
| 11 | He had also been a talented professional wrestler in his youth ( i.e. a good actor ) and still gave the impression that he could look after himself if pushed around . |
| 12 | Since he had not been a public figure before the war , the mass of French people had no idea what he looked like . |
| 13 | A tenth of those questioned thought that Hitler was the greatest statesman of the century , whose true greatness would only be recognized at a later date , and a further 22 per cent thought that , while he had made ‘ some mistakes ’ he had nevertheless been an excellent head of State . |
| 14 | He had previously been a junior minister at the Department of Energy and financial secretary to the Treasury . |
| 15 | He had already been a first-year seminarian when Eduardo was five . |
| 16 | Then , after Mr Dalglish had shocked the soccer world by resigning in the middle of last season , Mr Moran left the boot room to steady the ship , until Graeme Souness was free to leave Glasgow Rangers and return to Liverpool , where he had once been a key player . |
| 17 | He had always been a good and generous man . |
| 18 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 19 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 20 | They heard how he had always been an ungrateful and dangerous child , violently attacking another boy , and finally running away from the house where he had been working . |
| 21 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 22 | He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine . |
| 23 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 24 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |
| 25 | He had never been an impressive priest — dispensing sacraments , sermons and whist-drive announcements with the same patient ennui , like a weary shopkeeper who has forgotten why he ever started to sell . |
| 26 | At the time of the Westerfield poisonings he had sometimes been a difficult man to agree with , and he 'd more than once annoyed her by his attitude . |
| 27 | In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too . |
| 28 | He 's always been a gentle little soul , very loving and friendly with everyone , but as he had to spend 3–4 hours every day on his own at home , we thought we would get another dog as company for him . |