Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protest of the human individual against the massive forces which control him is indeed a theme which can be seen in contemporary art , literature , music and drama , in the struggles against racialism , poverty and war , in the popular movements of Western youth and in the renewed campaign for women 's emancipation ; so we can hardly be surprised if parents too begin to question the authority of the experts . |
| 2 | He may be like a banana tree or a coconut tree , half human in appearance , revolting in every way , but caring for him is still a woman 's duty if he 's her husband . |
| 3 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 4 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 5 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 6 | She asked him if he were still a virgin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 9 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 10 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 11 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 12 | Of all the contenders Armiger is certainly best placed to impress , as he is already a Group One winner and was among the favourites for the Derby until injury forced him out of the Epsom showpiece . |
| 13 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 14 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He is just a relative . |
| 17 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 18 | ‘ He does n't look too bad because of his coat but when you handle him , he is just a bag of bones . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He is also a secretary of Envis that is the commission of covenant to churches of which we are all members of churches . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | He is also a founder member and stage manager of the Calder Valley Junior theatre Society . |
| 23 | I think that he is also a peer — No , he is not a peer . |
| 24 | He is also a regular in the club 's open age side . |
| 25 | He is also a jogger and a keen Arsenal supporter . |
| 26 | He is also a member of the Gainsborough Quartet , the London Fortepiano Trio and the Age of Enlightenment . |
| 27 | He is also a member of the conference organising committee — MIKE TOMLINSON . |
| 28 | He is also a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales . |
| 29 | He is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of Guerlain , Paris . |
| 30 | He is also a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers . |