Example sentences of "he is [adv] a " 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 | ‘ If a person is intelligent , then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist . |
| 4 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 5 | Gilels has intelligence and fantasy in abundance ; yet without aiming at an Arrau-massiveness he is ultimately a more powerful protagonist than Brendel . |
| 6 | So he is already a celebrity in island cricket . |
| 7 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 8 | Of all the contenders Armiger is certainly best placed to impress , as he is already a Group One winner and was among the favourites for the Derby until injury forced him out of the Epsom showpiece . |
| 9 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 10 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 11 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 12 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 13 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 14 | He is just a confused young man going through a postgraduate crisis ; a rebel without claws . |
| 15 | And a delighted Billy Bonds saluted Allen 's week by saying : ‘ He is just a great goalscorer — it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He does n't look too bad because of his coat but when you handle him , he is just a bag of bones . ’ |
| 17 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |
| 18 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |
| 19 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 20 | he is just a right prick , right ? |
| 21 | He is just a relative . |
| 22 | I say gentleman , but I suppose he is just an official thug . ’ |
| 23 | I think he is just an ill and shocked young man with the highly strung temperament of so many artistic people . |
| 24 | At first he is just an unspecified ours , a bear ( 1841 ) . |
| 25 | He says he is just an observer , there to see that the American case is put . |
| 26 | Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . |
| 27 | He is also a self-styled haji , or Muslim holy man . |
| 28 | But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ . |
| 29 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 30 | He is also a director of the Bank of England , a governor of the National Institute of Economic $ Social Research , a governor of Henley Management College , chairman of Manchester Business School and an advisory director of Unilever . |