Example sentences of "he be the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 7 | as though he were the only god |
| 8 | Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |
| 18 | In this case the victim is totally exonerated , for he is the innocent husband being killed by his wicked or evil wife . |
| 19 | He is the supreme achievement of God 's creation . |
| 20 | He is the supreme Teacher for Christians who are growing in grace and in knowledge of their Lord . |
| 21 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 22 | He is the only member allowed to speak twice to the same motion . |
| 23 | He is the only person who can make it possible for us to become ourselves — to become a true person in an impersonal world . |
| 24 | If Greg Martin is alive then perhaps he is the only person in the world who can supply the answers . ’ |
| 25 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 26 | He is the only person I know who always seems to mean what he says when he talks about art . |
| 27 | He is the only person in opposition to plan for greater unemployment as a matter of policy . |
| 28 | He is the only person in this year 's list from the North-East of England . |
| 29 | She came to Harry Sissen 's farm between Darlington and Northallerton as he is the only person in the world actively trying to breed Lears Macaws ( named after Edward Lear in 1856 ) and save the species . |
| 30 | There is little point in sending an employee abroad because he is the only candidate to apply regardless of his ability to complete the posting . |