Example sentences of "he be a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He is a systems analyst , and his work is driving him spare at the moment . |
2 | Given the buoyancy of Major 's chart , he should be able to gather the support he needs for tomorrow 's crucial debate for he is a tactical Capricorn-rising every bit as much as he is a stand-by-my-principles Aries . |
3 | But the detective in a detective novel is not altogether your real policeman , though you do well never to make him ( if he is a police officer ) flout details of proper police procedure . |
4 | ‘ Yes , because he is a police officer . |
5 | Speaking for him … from his first post to the list it seems he is a Rangers supporter first and foremost , and I think Leeds are his ‘ English ’ side he likes . |
6 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
7 | Alternatively , the Secretary of State may , in the absence of reasonable excuse , inter alia , revoke that person 's authorization if he is an investments dealer . |
8 | No idea he 's gone from being a Jewish rabbi last night and he 's he 's sort of gone okay we 'll leap now out of , so he 's leapt out of that one and he 's leapt straight into a fucking little boy 's erm body right , and he 's a mongoloid poor little soul and he 's a downs syndrome kid . |
9 | He 's a carpet-and-slippers man who would be happy to run the firm as it has always been run . ’ |
10 | ‘ As for McClair … he 's a players ’ player , the one that makes them tick . ’ |
11 | ‘ Oh , he 's a ladies man all right ! |
12 | He 's a butterfingers . |
13 | ‘ He 's a projects co-ordinator ; been working for a big building company for years . |
14 | ‘ They wo n't know that he 's a police official . ’ |
15 | When I got into the ring I was fortunately unaware that he was a Services champion . |
16 | BOOK NOW Gary Moore Versatile former Thin Lizzy guitarist who , having dabbled in an impressive variety of styles , including heavy metal , jazz rock and folk , finally woke up one morning and decided that he was a blues guitarist . |
17 | His memories of the period are a mixture of Glasgow patter-merchant and re-cycled Hollywood cool : he was a Blues Brother who had never been to Chicago . |
18 | People might have thought he was a blues singer in an American jazz band . |
19 | It would n't have worked out with the first gentleman as it happens , because although he had a lovely smile , he was a ladies ' man and he did like drink too much . |
20 | But he has now returned two days a week to Magnet in Darlington , where he was a systems analyst , to try and improve his memory . |
21 | He was able to use the fact that he was a police sergeant ( and a sociology graduate ) to conduct a covert study of the police at work , and discusses the ethics of such research . |
22 | On Oct. 14 a student , Sol In Jong , was found dead at Yonsei University in Seoul after being beaten and interrogated by other students who believed he was a police informer . |
23 | Stewart 's chequered career began on the other side of the law in Sydney Australia where he was a police officer … he was even decorated for outstanding bravery in the course of duty . |
24 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
25 | She met husband John at Capenhurst when he was a wages and salaries officer at the plant . |
26 | Because he was a fungi . |
27 | Earlier Davies , 55 , claimed he was fired because executives feared evidence might be produced that he was an arms dealer even though no-one believed such a thing . |
28 | He was an explosives man . |
29 | Whatever else Brown was , he was an issues man . |