Example sentences of "he [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilko said he s the best athlete he has seen playing football . |
| 2 | He s the famous ryan giggs with a bottle up his arse , never mind , never mind ’ |
| 3 | Noone has come out to say it ( excepting twats like Emlyn Hughes ) , but even all the Wilko for England stuff has been negative saying he s the same a taylor , ie long ball . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Could he be the new Goal King ? |
| 6 | Could he be the only one who had got it right ? |
| 7 | Would he be the only person digging the graves ? |
| 8 | Would he be the only one doing that job ? |
| 9 | Would he be the only person ringing the bells ? |
| 10 | ‘ How can he be the greatest , ’ I asked , ‘ when he has n't met me ? |
| 11 | Will he be the next to go ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | He were the first |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 18 | as though he were the only god |
| 19 | If he were the only ‘ rookie ’ in defence , I would not be so worried , but Newsome and Wetherall are hardly going to be a stabilising influence . |
| 20 | Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid . |
| 21 | After the way he treated my sister , I would n't go with him if he were the last man on earth . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He is the central , pivotal figure in the story . |
| 24 | There , Bruce Springsteen is much more than another pop star , he is the central custodian of a set of rock ‘ n ’ roll values . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 … ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |