Example sentences of "he is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 2 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 3 | ‘ It is as well he is not a Papist , then , or the Pope would take off his frock. , ‘ He what ? ’ |
| 4 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 5 | He is not a Macbeth who seems particularly hag-ridden , by wife or witches , nor grotesquely ambitious . |
| 6 | He is not a natural extrovert ; leadership was thrust on him from a very early age . |
| 7 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 8 | Best of all , he is not a proselytiser , much less a saint . |
| 9 | ‘ He is not a clever man , ’ her friend said and Dorothea recalled that she had said it before , anxiously , determined that Dorothea should understand but , nevertheless , accept . |
| 10 | He is not a large man , but portly now and rather short of breath . |
| 11 | ‘ My father paints , now chiefly icons , painting straight on to board and insists he is not a line-drawing man . |
| 12 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 13 | Alas , in prose he is not a very sober writer . |
| 14 | But he is not a thrilling speaker . |
| 15 | While he is not a charismatic figure , his supporters say he would prove a worthy defender of the rights of backbenchers against increasing government power . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a pity he is not a bit more French . ’ |
| 17 | He is not a very manly person , you know . ’ |
| 18 | He is not a pretty sight . |
| 19 | ‘ He is not a … ’ |
| 20 | He is not a negotiator or a devil 's advocate . |
| 21 | According to his solicitor at the time Nicholas was ‘ bitterly disappointed with the verdict because he is not a violent man . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 23 | It allows the beneficiary under a trust to sue a third party in possession of the object under trust so long as he is not a ‘ bona fide purchaser for value without notice ’ . |
| 24 | He admits he is not a professional Welshman , since he does n't speak the language , does n't play rugby and does n't sing too well . |
| 25 | He is not a man who courts company , often cutting a solitary and somewhat broody figure , but colleagues say he was frustrated by his lack of opportunities with England in the winter and , more recently , by his inability to build big innings for Middlesex . |
| 26 | He is not a neutral observer who first learns to define Truth and then applies it to different aspects of life . |
| 27 | That he is not a wing by inclination matters little . |
| 28 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 29 | Older he undoubtedly is , but he is not a jot wiser . |
| 30 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |