Example sentences of "[pron] he [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more positively , he found in mysticism , besides metaphysical delusions , which he is the first to castigate , yet an affirmation of the possibility of universal love and joy which is the apex of human achievement . |
| 2 | As the authorities which I have cited demonstrate , the visitor is applying not the general law of the land but a peculiar , domestic law of which he is the sole arbiter and of which the courts have no cognisance . |
| 3 | GILBERT MANT concludes his inside story of the stormy 1932–33 Test series , form which he is the sole survivor among the journalists who covered the tour |
| 4 | The 1929 graduate added $25 million to the endowment of the Yale Center for British Art , of which he is the founding benefactor . |
| 5 | CD began writing up his travels for the Daily News , of which he was the first editor , and 8 ‘ Travelling Letters ’ appeared there between 21 Jan. and 11 Mar. 1846 , ending with the section entitled ‘ Piacenza to Bologna ’ in the book ; the ‘ Travelling Letters ’ were revised , and the remaining sections written for its publication as Pictures from Italy in May 1846 ( Bradbury & Evans , 1 vol . ) . |
| 6 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 7 | At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope . |
| 8 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 9 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 10 | In retirement he resumed an earlier active interest as trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs , of which he was the largest single ( albeit anonymous ) benefactor . |
| 11 | Mr. Chaudoir has been in England to attend the contemporary music festival Tempo ‘ 92 , at which he was the featured composer . |
| 12 | The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot . |
| 13 | It is a post that Mr Havel did not seek but for which he was the only serious candidate . |
| 14 | First as a winger , then as an out-and-out striker , he played an immensely valuable role in the Palace sides of the later years of that decade , culminating in the promotion team of 1969 , in which he was the top scorer with 14 goals , while his five 1st Division goals in 1969–70 were only improved upon at the Palace by proven striker Gerry Queen . |
| 15 | His real crime is that he is suspected by the Radical Party and militant members of the ruling Socialists ( ex-communists ) of plotting with the army , of which he was the nominal head , to stage a coup . |
| 16 | In everything he was the perfect courtier . |
| 17 | Tell him he 's the first one with the remote . |
| 18 | If , and to my mind it 's a colossal if , if she managed to seduce him and then told him he was the father-to-be , and if he believed it , it would have been more his style to pack her off home to her parents and provide for her . |
| 19 | Likes to kid everyone he 's the big macho tough guy . |
| 20 | To me he 's the best . |
| 21 | To them he was the same rough dog , running into the room with wet paws to be disparaged . |
| 22 | He he 's the only person out of that in that whole Ward |
| 23 | Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore . |
| 24 | But of course he he was the only one who thought this , everybody else said , Ah how ridiculous , have him back . |
| 25 | He he was the last resort of anybody I knew . |