Example sentences of "he be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought that Goibniu was looking happy ( although it was always difficult to tell with giants ) and thought , was n't it a fine old thing to see how well the designs were being received and was n't it great , altogether , to see how well received the Oakapple 's sketches were , because had n't he been the guiding light behind most of the work ? |
| 2 | Could he be the new Goal King ? |
| 3 | Would he be the only person digging the graves ? |
| 4 | Would he be the only person ringing the bells ? |
| 5 | Mr Clarke is not , after all , the first , nor will he be the last politician to find himself caught on the hop by a shrewd interviewer . |
| 6 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 7 | The hydrogen nucleus consists of a single proton ; helium contains two protons and one or two neutrons , these two ‘ isotopes ’ being known as helium-3 and helium-4 ( written 3 He , 4 He — He being the chemical symbol for helium and the 3 or 4 referring to the total number of constituents within the nucleus ) . |
| 8 | " So I called , " Jenny went on , ignoring the interruption , " and there was this marvellous man , with Great-Aunt and Lizzie fussing round him as though he were the greatest gift to humanity . |
| 9 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 10 | as though he were the only god |
| 11 | Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid . |
| 12 | After the way he treated my sister , I would n't go with him if he were the last man on earth . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |
| 23 | In this case the victim is totally exonerated , for he is the innocent husband being killed by his wicked or evil wife . |
| 24 | ‘ I think he is the coolest guy in the world , and the richest . |
| 25 | He is the supreme achievement of God 's creation . |
| 26 | He is the supreme Teacher for Christians who are growing in grace and in knowledge of their Lord . |
| 27 | He is the greatest athlete of all time in my book . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Luke says of his building worker stepfather Steve Bennett : ‘ He is the greatest man I know . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |