Example sentences of "he be an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 2 | ‘ I will stay here if I may , ’ she said , looking at Marx as if he were an unpleasant insect . |
| 3 | Instead he was confronted by the tall , dark man whose hand was extended ready to clamp on to the sergeant 's and give it a hearty shake as if he were an old friend . |
| 4 | And an anonymous journalist : ‘ If he were an American jockey he 'd be crucified . ’ |
| 5 | Now , with the dawn breaking and his death so close , he found himself strangely sanguine — almost as if he were an abstract entity observing , from another place , the last chapter of his life . |
| 6 | He has been at court , he is an educated man . |
| 7 | Mr. Al Sultan is a primary school teacher of about 45 , a civilian , not a man who joined the army — he is an educated man , a graduate . |
| 8 | Fairclough has proved in the past and is proving again now that he is an outstanding man to man marker . |
| 9 | And , speaking of England : ‘ I am surpised that Neil Back has been omitted from the squad because he is an outstanding player . |
| 10 | Like Piquet he is an outstanding talent with the desire and ability to win . |
| 11 | For these reasons , it might well be that the courts will be reluctant to interfere with the judgment of the policeman on the spot , especially if he is an experienced officer . |
| 12 | If he is an experienced gardener , you have to make sure that he sets himself achievable targets , and does not become over-ambitious . |
| 13 | He is an experienced campaigner on the world stage and knows that above all else he must go into the Portugal match with a positive attitude and not use Gough 's absence as a convenient excuse . |
| 14 | ‘ He is an experienced keeper and I have no worries about playing him , although Jason did his chances no harm last night . ’ |
| 15 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He is an experienced player who acknowledged that he was fully aware that under his contractual responsibilities he was forbidden to make unauthorised public statements . |
| 17 | ‘ He is an experienced politician and what he said was totally reprehensible and inexcusable , ’ he said . |
| 18 | He is an omnivorous poet , quite as comfortable in the world of technology as in that of animals , plants and other country matters , which are often thought to be the more proper subjects of poetry . |
| 19 | The townspeople also spent a lot of time scribbling on walls — love letters , advertisements , sexual boasts and political slogans ( ’ Vote for Lucius , he is an honest man ’ ) — while a mortgage on wax was also discovered under the ash . |
| 20 | If an hon. Member 's jacket and trousers do not match and his clothing in general does not reach the heights of elegance , we know that he is an honest man . |
| 21 | He is an extraordinary compound . ’ |
| 22 | He is an occasional golfer and plays indoor football during the winter . |
| 23 | Their house was the tallest on Thrush Green , and when we first meet the good doctor , in the book of that name , he is an elderly man contemplating retirement . |
| 24 | In his spare time he is an Assistant Secretary to the well known Premier League team , Hamilton Accies , for whom he writes the programme . |
| 25 | He then goes on to say that he would like the plebeians to believe him because he is an honourable man , they respect him and to remember his honourable reputation so that they are more ready to believe him . |
| 26 | He does this by saying things like , ‘ But Brutus says he was ambitious , And Brutus is an honourable man ’ He is saying very sarcastically that Brutus is always right because he is an honourable man . |
| 27 | After reading Caesar 's will , every moment becoming more and more popular , Antony claims that he is an ordinary man . |
| 28 | He is an ordinary bloke , everybody 's idea of a bank manager . |
| 29 | He is an innocent man ! |
| 30 | He is an adorable person , and as he is still young we all hope that he will make a new career now . |