Example sentences of "he be [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some who heard him were impressed and a few were frightened . |
| 2 | He is confident that a further cut in borrowings will be reported in the next report to shareholders . |
| 3 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 4 | In short , he is all that a medieval paladin might be expected to be . |
| 5 | He is honest and a good craftsman , committed to high standards of preparation and presentation , but otherwise generally easygoing . |
| 6 | ‘ It is with trifles and when he is off-guard that a man best reveals his character . ’ |
| 7 | He is convinced that a Cabinet minister is plotting against him and determined to find out who it is . |
| 8 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 9 | He is sure that a computational ‘ Samba school ’ , or something like it , will catch on somewhere . |
| 10 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 11 | A complaint must be made in writing to a councillor of the authority concerned for forwarding to the commissioner , although the commissioner may consider a complaint direct if he is satisfied that a councillor has been requested to pass it on , and has failed to do so . |
| 12 | When he arrives in the White House we will discover if he is more than a brilliant campaigner . |
| 13 | On Wednesday , Taylor hopes they can make fools out of World Cup rivals Turkey because , with David Batty out , Palmer looks certain of an eighth cap and the chance to prove he is more than a court jester . |
| 14 | He is more than a year older than Emma , but he lives in Dorset , an area which does n't encourage early school entry . |
| 15 | Yet the real strength of Lloyd Webber , says Black , is that he is more than a composer . |
| 16 | He 's two and a half |
| 17 | Well all the better for the breastfeeding — Do you know , Inverdarroch her wee Roderick-dhu , he 's four and a half … |
| 18 | Well , wee Roderick-dhu though , he 's four and a half and she still breastfeeds him . |
| 19 | He 's straight as a die . |
| 20 | Bowe , they say , who does impressions of Stevie Wonder , Bill Cosby and Ronald Reagan that could earn him a different sort of starring role on the Vegas Strip , has yet to prove that he 's more than a clever impersonator of a heavyweight champion . |
| 21 | Jonathon Love was born with dwarfism , and spent several years in a wheelchair … but now he 's more than a foot taller than nature had intended . |
| 22 | He 's faster than a speeding tortoise |
| 23 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
| 24 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
| 25 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
| 26 | He was unaware that a harassed Mr Dixon , caught between Hank , his parents and the school authorities , had disclaimed any knowledge of Hank 's whereabouts , except to say , when asked by the school secretary , that probably Hank had the flu — there was a lot of it about . |
| 27 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 28 | He was unaware that a Garda inquiry was being conducted into the allegation , he added . |
| 29 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
| 30 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |