Example sentences of "he is the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the USSR the state which employs him is the sole employer and is the same state which determines whether he have a house or not . |
| 2 | The point that seems to have struck him is the total opposition between son and father , Ingeld/Ingjaldr and Fróda/ Fróthi . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All that remains for him is the bitter awareness of his own futility . |
| 5 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 6 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 7 | He is the managing director of a Highland company which , since he took over exactly a year ago , has increased its workforce from four to 14 and its turnover from £40,000 to £400,000 a year . |
| 8 | It will , I know , be a tough decision for you to make , Les , because it is common knowledge that Terry has you in his back pocket , but he is the weak link in the team this year . |
| 9 | Does the Home Secretary accept that , in his high office , he is the prime protector of the liberties of the subject and upholder of the rule of law , and that his position has been fatally compromised by his unwillingness to carry out the order of the court and to ask questions about it subsequently ? |
| 10 | Officially Mr Thomas is director of presentations for the Conservative party : unofficially he is the Prime Minister 's personal advance man , as the current phrase goes . |
| 11 | Matthew 's style was snappy : ‘ John Major was the Chancellor who got us into recession and he is the Prime Minister who is n't going to get us out … ’ |
| 12 | Through the creative agency of his Word and his Spirit God is the author and giver of faith ; naturally he is the prime resolver of doubt . |
| 13 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |
| 14 | In this case the victim is totally exonerated , for he is the innocent husband being killed by his wicked or evil wife . |
| 15 | He is the supreme achievement of God 's creation . |
| 16 | He is the supreme Teacher for Christians who are growing in grace and in knowledge of their Lord . |
| 17 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 18 | He is the only member allowed to speak twice to the same motion . |
| 19 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 20 | If Greg Martin is alive then perhaps he is the only person in the world who can supply the answers . ’ |
| 21 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 22 | He is the only person I know who always seems to mean what he says when he talks about art . |
| 23 | He is the only person in opposition to plan for greater unemployment as a matter of policy . |
| 24 | He is the only person in this year 's list from the North-East of England . |
| 25 | She came to Harry Sissen 's farm between Darlington and Northallerton as he is the only person in the world actively trying to breed Lears Macaws ( named after Edward Lear in 1856 ) and save the species . |
| 26 | There is little point in sending an employee abroad because he is the only candidate to apply regardless of his ability to complete the posting . |
| 27 | In one-day internationals he is the only bowler to have taken over 200 wickets , and his astonishing 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup has been exceeded only twice — both times by Viv Richards — in limited-overs internationals . |
| 28 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 29 | He feels as if he is the only man awake in the entire world . |
| 30 | In fact he is the only man to win world titles at both codes . |