Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well known picture of the flautist that appears as the frontispiece of his Principes de la flûte traversière ( Paris , 1707 ) is assumed to be a portrait of Jacques himself ; the instrument he plays is the archetype of the early three-piece flute ( illus.2 ) . |
| 2 | The point that no one in government seems to have grasped is that the businessman who spots what he thinks is a gap in the market and retools his factory , only to find that he has made an error of judgment , loses his own money and learns his lesson . |
| 3 | The ‘ giant sucking sound ’ that Ross Perot keeps hearing , and which he thinks is the rush of American jobs to Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement , is more likely to be the magnetic pull of the still-irresistible United States . |
| 4 | I am trying to tease from the right hon. Gentleman what he thinks is the meaning of the new clause that he invites the House to adopt . |
| 5 | It is safe to say that the traditional Marxist ‘ base and superstructure ’ is notable for its absence in Foucault , but it is less clear what he thinks is the role of economics in social and penal change . |
| 6 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 7 | If a manufacturer in Hong Kong sells his goods to a merchant in Manila the payment which he receives is no doubt sourced in Manila but his profit on the transaction arises in and is derived from his manufacturing operation in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | He has been a couple of times . |
| 9 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 10 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 11 | He campaigned against the burial of irradiated waste in the UK , and Parliamentary commitments include serving on the select committe for employment , 1983–87 , and he has been a whip responsible for defence , energy , transports and Northern Ireland for several years . |
| 12 | Through his chairmanship of the TCCB 's Registration Sub-committee , he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the TCCB since 1980 . |
| 13 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 14 | He has been a member of the Chief Executive 's Management Group since those early days and is the only remaining director from the team which put the Council together in 1974 . |
| 15 | He has been a member of the Scottish International Cycling Squad for 8 years . |
| 16 | He has been a member of a number of college committees and has acted as Head of Department . |
| 17 | He has been a member of the Executive Committee as Cork District Secretary since 1983 . |
| 18 | He has been a member of the Pensioners ' Committee , the Council of the Institute of Bankers and a Trustee of Bank of Ireland Pension Fund . |
| 19 | He has been a member of that Committee since it was re-established in 1991 . |
| 20 | Of course Potter has nothing against unions as such , he has been a member of the National Union of Teachers all his working life . |
| 21 | He has been a member of every Conservative Cabinet since 1970 , despite the fact that , by his own testimony , he is strongly against monetarism , non-interventionism , the high interest rate policy , the poll tax , the European Community policy of the previous Prime Minister and , last but not least , the promotion of hospital opt-outs . |
| 22 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not able to join us in Committee because I have enjoyed his contributions in previous Committees of which he has been a member . |
| 23 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 24 | He has been a member of the Royal Dorset Yacht Club for the past twenty three years and is now an honorary life member . |
| 25 | He has been a member of the episcopal committee to liaise with the Major Religious Superiors since 1984 and is the present chairman of the committee for consecrated life . |
| 26 | He has been a member of Dinsdale Golf Club for seven years and only played there about ten times and that is something else he hopes to expand on , he says . |
| 27 | He has been a branch representative for many years since being elected to that role in Queen 's Square . |
| 28 | Herbie was Craigavon district Secretary 1979–87 and he has been a branch representative since 1978 . |
| 29 | Well he has been a bit |
| 30 | ‘ He has been a bit edgy , ’ said Helen . |