Example sentences of "that he be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit that he 's a brilliant businessman , but I just wish he was n't in my business . |
| 2 | ‘ Gossip has it that he 's a good accountant , keen on music , and henpecked . |
| 3 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 4 | WATCHING Mick Harford recently , it was hard to resist the thought that he 's a prime candidate for any buy-of-the-season award . |
| 5 | Offiah said earlier this week that he 's a lousy loser but nobody likes to lose — he 's not unique . |
| 6 | You can tell , just by walking into Jay Chandler 's house in Shrewsbury , that he 's a keen fishkeeper . |
| 7 | Norman is willing to accept the criticism that he 's a white man making a good living from black music . |
| 8 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |
| 9 | ‘ They say he 's one sort of person when he 's out in the open among people — he can be very sweet — but that he 's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 11 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 12 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 13 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 14 | They 'll be edited by David Irving , but after new allegations that he 's a Nazi sympathiser , the paper 's asked the Oxford historian Norman Stone to look at them too . |
| 15 | He 's left the priesthood now , but has a national profile which has lifted Labour 's campaign locally and made him instantly recognisable to many as he attempts to persuade them that he 's the new broom they need . |
| 16 | In the story above , David says that he 's the only boy in his class who 's not been out with a girl . |
| 17 | Yet one disagreeable cynic observed the adoration and commented wryly : ‘ It seems to me that he 's the only man in London not in love with her ’ . |
| 18 | Not that he 's the only climber who appears to wish to play down the education aspects of his past — amongst many others with whom you can have sport in this manner are Stephen Venables ( Charterhouse ) , our own Tom Prentice at Climber ( Harrow ) , or even Ed himself ( Uppingham ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't you understand that he 's the last person on the staff I want to see upset ? ’ |
| 20 | But what you have to understand is that he 's the biggest thing in these villages , so he has to be the biggest thing in my life . |
| 21 | What is in fashion — among literary critics and judges of prizes — is a curious form of esotericism , whereby the novelist reminds us that he is no mere novelist but an extraordinary intelligence as well . |
| 22 | His minders were angry with us when we said and wrote that he is no great orator . |
| 23 | ‘ Should you be referring to Vaughan , good uncle , I assure you that he is no vexatious matter , ’ Edward said hotly . |
| 24 | He will guide and accompany them wherever they go — and they will know that he is no local deity whose power is limited to Sinai . |
| 25 | I can tell from what he said that he is a strong supporter of the parents charter , without which those results might not have been fully known . |
| 26 | As a native New Yorker , I can vouch for the fact that he is a classy guide to some very mean streets . |
| 27 | He wants to prove that he is a new man — but still one of the greatest football talents in the world . |
| 28 | Yet for all that he is a political leader of remarkably limited powers . |
| 29 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 30 | Penney has been around enough , however , to demonstrate that he is a brilliant fielder and , as such , a most valuable one-day asset . |