Example sentences of "he is the [adj] [noun] " 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 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 5 | All that remains for him is the bitter awareness of his own futility . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is the fifth manager to leave Crewe Park in the last two years following in the footsteps of Paul O'Gara , Terry Nicholson , Jack Walsh and Sammy Watson , who all parted company with the club last season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |
| 16 | In this case the victim is totally exonerated , for he is the innocent husband being killed by his wicked or evil wife . |
| 17 | ‘ I think he is the coolest guy in the world , and the richest . |
| 18 | He is the supreme achievement of God 's creation . |
| 19 | He is the supreme Teacher for Christians who are growing in grace and in knowledge of their Lord . |
| 20 | He is the greatest athlete of all time in my book . ’ |
| 21 | Coleridge was overwhelmed , as he made plain in a letter to Joseph Cottle : ‘ T. Poole 's opinion of Wordsworth is — that he is the greatest Man , he ever knew — I coincide . ’ |
| 22 | Luke says of his building worker stepfather Steve Bennett : ‘ He is the greatest man I know . |
| 23 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 24 | Said Rugby League public affairs executive David Howes : ‘ Offiah was chosen because he is the greatest personality in the game . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He is the only member allowed to speak twice to the same motion . |
| 27 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 28 | If Greg Martin is alive then perhaps he is the only person in the world who can supply the answers . ’ |
| 29 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 30 | He is the only person I know who always seems to mean what he says when he talks about art . |