Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 2 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 3 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 4 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 5 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 6 | ‘ He does n't look too bad because of his coat but when you handle him , he is just a bag of bones . ’ |
| 7 | He is also a kind of consultant that 's less well-known , he 's supposed to run the art market — lives like a tycoon , but he really loves painting . |
| 8 | He is also a secretary of Envis that is the commission of covenant to churches of which we are all members of churches . |
| 9 | But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ . |
| 10 | He is also a regular in the club 's open age side . |
| 11 | He is also a member of the Gainsborough Quartet , the London Fortepiano Trio and the Age of Enlightenment . |
| 12 | He is also a member of the conference organising committee — MIKE TOMLINSON . |
| 13 | He is also a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales . |
| 14 | He is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of Guerlain , Paris . |
| 15 | He is also a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers . |
| 16 | He is also a member of the Crossword Club , which publishes two puzzles each month which are more of a challenge than the others , he says . |
| 17 | Acknowledgment by a manager served with proceedings is only permissible if he is also a partner in the firm . |
| 18 | He is also a Trustee of the JM Employees Pension Scheme in the UK . |
| 19 | He is also a director of the Bank of England , a governor of the National Institute of Economic $ Social Research , a governor of Henley Management College , chairman of Manchester Business School and an advisory director of Unilever . |
| 20 | He is also a director of Shildon Football Club . |
| 21 | He is also a collector of houses , furniture and paintings on an eighteenth-century Grand Tour scale . |
| 22 | [ But ] he is also a connoisseur in the art of attracting charming new faces … |
| 23 | He is also a lot of fun . |
| 24 | He is also a patron of the applied arts , putting his educated eyes to use in finding and buying contemporary work as well as collecting from the past . |
| 25 | He is also a governor of Ysgol y Castell and is involved with Toc H , the leagues of friends of HM Stanley Hospital and Ysbyty Glan Clwyd . |
| 26 | He is frequently a guest of Colonel Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel at Achnacarry , his 80,000-acre deer forest near Fort William . |
| 27 | He is manifestly a chip off the old block , and his birth has not , after all , meant a return to the bright world of God 's first beginning . |
| 28 | He is now a member of the Ecclesiastical Committee which decides on its next stage . |
| 29 | He is now a Republic of Ireland international . |
| 30 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |