Example sentences of "that he [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why does a woman work 10 years to change a man 's habits and then complain that he 's not the man she married ? ’ |
| 2 | Someone should tell him that he 's not the only one with a murder on his hands . " |
| 3 | But just show Mr Laing that he 's not the only one that can Strathclyde water engaged Sir William , in , not exactly a name that friendly with labour councils or trade unionists , to undertake a brief external overview of its strat strategy procedure in capital expenditure programme at a meeting on the twenty third of March . |
| 4 | But , having said that he 's not the most reliable person in the world . |
| 5 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 6 | They also found the entertainer ineligible because it is ‘ public and notorious ’ that he is also the owner and controller of a television channel and could abuse that power . |
| 7 | Ben seems to forget that he is not the only one in the world to be making progress , that it is not just the routes he puts up which are the difficult ones , and that he is n't the best climber there is . |
| 8 | At first , the father 's contribution ( and we are here making the assumption that he is not the principal parent ) does not have a differential impact on boys and on girls . |
| 9 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 10 | Ben seems to forget that he is not the only one in the world to be making progress , that it is not just the routes he puts up which are the difficult ones , and that he is n't the best climber there is . |
| 11 | Flying Scot Colin McRae is third , but Malcolm Wilson showed his highly-rated compatriot that he is not the only Briton gunning for the Pounds 100,000 jackpot being offered by sponsors Lombard for a home winner . |
| 12 | While Hoving 's career at the Met could make for a juicy and fascinating story , Making the Mummies Dance proves that he is not the man to tell it . |
| 13 | The humble people bring up the hero as their own child , eventually the hero realizes through a dream , through a prophecy , a visitation or something that he is not the child of his humble parents , but the find out who his real parents were , and then returns and arduous struggles and eventually gains his rightful place . |
| 14 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 15 | The Trader warrants that he is either the owner of the goods in any Consignment or is authorized by such owner to accept these Conditions on such owner 's behalf . |
| 16 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 17 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 18 | The King approved of this decision , and indeed Lord Stamfordham wrote a memorandum which revealed that the King had seen Balfour on 8 December and told him that , ‘ If Mr Baldwin wishes to resign , the King will refuse , on the grounds that he is still the head of the largest Party in the House of Commons and for every reason , constitutional and otherwise , it would be right and proper for the Government to meet Parliament and leave it to the representatives of the people to decide whether or not they will support the Government . ’ |
| 19 | He is the first to admit that he was not the best of patients . |
| 20 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 21 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 22 | Michaels and the three other Boyz : Shawn Stockman , Nathan Morris and Wayna Morris insist that he was not the victim of a mob feud . |
| 23 | Occasionally perhaps I should notice that he was not the jovial , easy-going character I remembered from my humble place in the chorus . |
| 24 | He disclosed nothing of himself , but the more he talked the more convinced she became that he was not the Nazi agent in charge of their operations in Egypt . |
| 25 | Even that did not stop Pugh getting quizzical looks from the referee who asked about his age , so I told him that he was not the Pugh named as sub in the programme but the club mascot . |
| 26 | That he was not the hunter , but the hunted ? ’ |
| 27 | He attended at a board meeting of the Commissioners , and objected both to the amount and nature of the charge , and also stated that he was not the owner of the houses , and that Mrs. Bennett was . |
| 28 | At last , here was the explanation she had secretly longed for , the proof that he was not the ruthless , uncaring employer , after all . |
| 29 | After using the car for 11 months , Butterworth discovered that he was not the owner . |
| 30 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |