Example sentences of "he is the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the only major figure offering an alternative party programme which is not a watered-down version of Mrs Thatcher 's . |
| 2 | Standing independently or as SDP , he is the only credible alternative . . |
| 3 | He is the only Prime Minister in the history of the United Kingdom to have lost every by-election during the period of his premiership . |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London . |
| 5 | Sir Wyn Roberts hangs on as Britain 's longest-serving minister of state because he is the only Tory MP who writes poetry in Welsh . |
| 6 | Although his personal popularity is difficult to gauge most Afghans in Kabul respect President Najibullah because he is the only Afghan leader talking peace . |
| 7 | Red Hand may think he is the only sane man around here . ’ |
| 8 | By consequence of his inaction , he is the only leading communist of his generation today to be completely untainted by the 1956 uprising and its aftermath . |
| 9 | On stage he is the fastest improvising comedian in the States . |
| 10 | Partly , with his flat Northern vowels , tight blue uniform and fusspot bracings and flexings , he is the officious British bobby of the Derek Guyler school . |
| 11 | Mr Kinnock says ( Echo March 13 ) he is the first Labour leader to advocate a head to head televised debate with the Tory leader . |
| 12 | He is the first reigning Formula One world champion to make the switch and Haas , a wealthy ex-racer , admitted : ‘ We know he had a fabulous offer from Ferrari . |
| 13 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is the first Prime Minister in history to attend the annual general meeting of the National Farmers Union ? |
| 15 | He is the first western born challenger for the title since Bobby Fischer took the championship in 1972 and the first British player this century to be this close to the world title . |
| 16 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 17 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 18 | He is the first frightening indication of Tokyo 's apparent infatuation with rap . |
| 19 | Waddle has made an excellent start to his new career in France , where he is the major single investment in Marseille 's campaign for domestic and European success . |
| 20 | He is the forty-seven year-old doctor of historical sciences Mikhayl Piotrovskiy . |
| 21 | He says he is the best young goalkeeper by far in all the North-East clubs . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He is the best American comedian since Jack Lemmon , ’ raved New Republic . |
| 23 | He is the typical wimpy boy who would be outcast at school . |
| 24 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 25 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 26 | He is the main financial support of his widowed mother and I have very strait-laced parents . |
| 27 | In some respects , he is the last major social theorist directly to have confronted this issue in its own terms , despite the fact that this same quantitative rise in material culture has continued , and appears set to continue , at a most extraordinary rate . |
| 28 | He is the last great British man of letters . |
| 29 | Ultra-confident , dashing and with a swashbuckling air he is the archetypal head boy or captain of the rugby team . |
| 30 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |