Example sentences of "that he [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit that he 's a brilliant businessman , but I just wish he was n't in my business . |
| 2 | There are passages in this book which are curiously enigmatic or coy ; but I 'd recommend it to anyone and I 'd freely tell them about Dennis that he 's a good old boy , a sound socialist , a grassroots climbers . |
| 3 | ‘ Gossip has it that he 's a good accountant , keen on music , and henpecked . |
| 4 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 5 | WATCHING Mick Harford recently , it was hard to resist the thought that he 's a prime candidate for any buy-of-the-season award . |
| 6 | Offiah said earlier this week that he 's a lousy loser but nobody likes to lose — he 's not unique . |
| 7 | The cover story is that he 's a downed Luftwaffe pilot . |
| 8 | So he had , but I see very clearly now that he 's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick . ’ |
| 9 | You can tell , just by walking into Jay Chandler 's house in Shrewsbury , that he 's a keen fishkeeper . |
| 10 | Norman is willing to accept the criticism that he 's a white man making a good living from black music . |
| 11 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |
| 12 | ‘ They say he 's one sort of person when he 's out in the open among people — he can be very sweet — but that he 's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 14 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 15 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 16 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 17 | They 'll be edited by David Irving , but after new allegations that he 's a Nazi sympathiser , the paper 's asked the Oxford historian Norman Stone to look at them too . |
| 18 | There can be no doubt now that Lewis is not only fit and ready to challenge for the world heavyweight title , but that he is a probable , rather than a possible , to become Britain 's first champion at the weight in 100 years . |
| 19 | I can tell from what he said that he is a strong supporter of the parents charter , without which those results might not have been fully known . |
| 20 | As a native New Yorker , I can vouch for the fact that he is a classy guide to some very mean streets . |
| 21 | He wants to prove that he is a new man — but still one of the greatest football talents in the world . |
| 22 | Yet for all that he is a political leader of remarkably limited powers . |
| 23 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 24 | Penney has been around enough , however , to demonstrate that he is a brilliant fielder and , as such , a most valuable one-day asset . |
| 25 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 26 | ‘ With the reservation that he is a better writer than novelist , VS Pritchett . |
| 27 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 28 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 29 | Y'know , when all the Batty stuff finally happened I thought to myself that at least some other people might see that he is a good player after all ( and prove me right ) . |
| 30 | So does that mean that he is a good teacher of music , he 's just not a good disciplinarian ? |