Example sentences of "he [is] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing at all about Rocky … except he s in the 17 man squad ( which we already knew ) . |
| 2 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't be put off by old ‘ Crazy Horse ’ Emlyn — he is of the high-pitched voice and cheesy grin . |
| 4 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 5 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 6 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 7 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 8 | ‘ All I know is that he is with the naval air forces . |
| 9 | whether he is on the right road or not : |
| 10 | She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime . ’ |
| 11 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 12 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 13 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 14 | Bill Clinton has gone out of his way to stress the so-called special relationship will not be imperilled while he is in the Oval Office . |
| 15 | He is in the 100 kilogramme class and has lifted nearly four times his own weight . |
| 16 | He knows that by serving these interests he is in the best position to achieve what lie has to achieve . |
| 17 | He is in the best place , and I 'm sure I 'd only be in your way . |
| 18 | Ferguson claims he is in the best condition of his career and is completely focused . |
| 19 | Philip points out he is in the fortunate position that he loves his work and is currently employed on his most unusual project to date . |
| 20 | If nature has endowed a particular market participant with all the current endowment of a certain resource , he is in the fortunate position of being a monopolist resource owner . |
| 21 | Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y . |
| 22 | Now onto the solicitor one er although he is er he is in the commercial world he 's he 's not here under in the same way as John from . |
| 23 | And since Al has decided to snub the press , he is in the unfortunate position of having to answer for him . |
| 24 | In many ways , he is in the same position as a husband who finds that his wife is infertile . |
| 25 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 26 | He is in the same half of the draw as top seed Peter Marshall , the world number five . |
| 27 | The Panel will not regard an adviser as independent if he is in the same group as the financial adviser to an offeror , or if he has a significant interest in or financial connection with either an offeror or the target company of such a kind as to create a conflict of interest ( Rule 3.3 ) . |
| 28 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 29 | She brushed aside Mrs Singh 's assertions that her son was not making progress by telling her repeatedly that it was unreasonable to expect anything more ; she used phrases like ‘ He is well below average ’ , ‘ He is slow ’ , ‘ He is in the bottom set , you must accept that . |
| 30 | And then Lyne says to me he is in the bottom set . |