Example sentences of "[adj] he be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this he was the opposite of Reinhardt . |
| 2 | It 's not clear he 's the mystery caller . |
| 3 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 4 | As such he is the guarantor of our acceptance . |
| 5 | From 1708 he was the City mason , and in 1720 was appointed master mason to Westminster Abbey . |
| 6 | Judge Brian Smedley had directed an Old Bailey jury to acquit Bartman , 67 , at the end of the prosecution case because the evidence showed it was inherently improbable he was the killer . |
| 7 | One only come in the restaurant once but I 'm sure he 's the boss . |
| 8 | ( Rourke makes sure he is the loser ; the guy is such an incurable romantic . ) |
| 9 | I am sure he is the toad behind the unprecedented negative media coverage we are getting at the moment . |
| 10 | It had to be sure he was the Wizard King , after all . |
| 11 | It 's 99 per cent sure he was the hitman for the dissident . |
| 12 | But above all he is the man who took on Chanel , the greatest fashion legend of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | I du n no how long he was The boot was open yeah . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned he 's the man for the job . |
| 15 | Pick in brought an action against the Board , claiming that by virtue of s. 259 he was the owner of that land to mid-track . |
| 16 | The present Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) is the fifteenth appointed since 1866 He is the head of the National Audit Office ( NAO ) , which was established on 1 January 1984 to replace and continue the work of the former Exchequer and Audit Department ( E & AD ) . |
| 17 | Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black . |
| 18 | In 1681 he was the victim of blackmail involving Titus Oates [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | Apart from being one of the largest blue boats in years , it is also one of the youngest , with only one American he 's the boat club president , Mike Aspel . |
| 20 | From 1583 he took part in the administration of Aldersgate ward in the City of London , where he lived ; from 1606 he was the ward 's senior common councilman . |
| 21 | During 15 years with EMI he worked in artist development , marketing , promotion and public relations , and on leaving the company in 1989 he was the director of public relations and communications , EMI Music Worldwide . |
| 22 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 23 | From 1983–85 he was the leader 's Parliamentary Private Secretary , before becoming Chief Whip and one of Kinnock 's closest confidantes . |
| 24 | FORMER Canterbury opening batsman Ian Robert Hartland ( 16 matches 1961 to 1966 ) died of cancer in March at 52. he was the father of Blair , who made his Test debut for New Zealand against England in January . |