Example sentences of "and he [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not new to the museum world , as he is on the visiting committees of the Metropolitan and of the Freer Art gallery , and he is also a collector , of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art , and of Chinese archaic jades and bronzes . |
| 2 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 3 | He is responsible for the Group 's taxation , UK trust and pension services and he is also a well known author of books and articles on taxation . |
| 4 | That takes Shearer 's tally to 10 goals in 10 games and he is also the Premier League 's leading scorer . |
| 5 | His name is Jack Russell and he is also the best wicketkeeper in England . |
| 6 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 7 | At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world . |
| 8 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 9 | Jnandas a poet of medieval India expressed the joy and aspirations of the humble soul who knows that within him is the divine spark , and he is therefore the All for which the festival is planned . |
| 10 | My immediate boss , Ed Grainger , had n't even heard of Harley and he is actually the man who runs the golf division for Martinez . |
| 11 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 12 | Offiah is fortunate to be blessed with great natural ability and he is certainly the most marketable asset in Rugby League . |
| 13 | David Emanuel ( above ) is best known for his role in creating Princess Diana 's fairy tale wedding dress , and he is still a high-society favourite for his Ascot suits and Royal haute couture . |
| 14 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 15 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 16 | ‘ Edward is the first royal star , ’ one newspaper wrote , ‘ and he is now the most famous man in the world . |
| 17 | He may agree , and he is often the one who decides what issues will be dealt with and when . |
| 18 | Do we really need him now , there 's no way he 's going to be as good as he used to be , and he 's probably the size of Mick Quinn now anyway : - ) |
| 19 | And he 's probably an anarchist . ’ |
| 20 | Greenbank took most of the photos himself and he 's clearly an accomplished photographer . |
| 21 | That day Antrim were forced to play without the injured Terence McNaughton , and he 's again a reluctant spectator today , though he could be pressed into action at some stage . |
| 22 | Hoomey 's the only one willing , and he 's just a weed . |
| 23 | But he is a pillock , he 's I mean she , Catherine right his cous Russell 's cousin she 's really pretty , she 's rea she 's got a lovely skinny figure , everything and he 's just a pillock , there 's no other word for him . |
| 24 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 25 | Erm I think the bad news for the honourable member from Stafford is that er Messier Herman is in fact a member of the European peoples party and no doubt no the honourable member with great respect , said that he was a Christian democrat and he 's also a member of the European Peoples party and therefore I hope that the honourable member for Stafford will take that up with his Conservative colleagues , who are very closely connected to the European peoples party , because I hopefully have made clear earlier in my remarks . |
| 26 | He 's living alone in near squalor and he 's obviously a sick man . ’ |
| 27 | But I 've got this other kid , he 's twenty eight , and he 's absolutely a waste of time , he does n't know anything about it . |
| 28 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 29 | Well I think he 's been on before and he 's quite a decent chap , I think . |
| 30 | According to a married 35-year-old credit manager : ‘ At our school we were all approaching our 16th birthdays and it was like anyone who reaches 16 and he 's still a virgin — what a nancy . |