Example sentences of "he [be] a brilliant [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Baa-Baas captain Carling countered : ‘ He is a brilliant rugby player .
2 ‘ But he is a brilliant photographer .
3 Penney has been around enough , however , to demonstrate that he is a brilliant fielder and , as such , a most valuable one-day asset .
4 By the time he returned to Germany in 1948 , his progress was such that his teachers were inspired to proclaim : ‘ He is a brilliant pupil
5 He is a brilliant producer .
6 We think he 's a hero and he 's shown he 's a brilliant driver .
7 and he would have all these wee men and like different huts , and this is all set out and he 's a brilliant drawer , I 've never seen him draw
8 Sure it started out lukewarm , but once people saw him they went crazy , and by the end of the given tour , he had a totally devoted following because he 's a brilliant performer .
9 He said : ‘ He 's a brilliant performer both in front of the camera and with the microphone .
10 He can name his price and I 'll pay it because he 's a brilliant jock , but that 's it and he knows it . ’
11 He 's a brilliant doctor .
12 And on top of everything else he 's a brilliant linguist .
13 I admit that he 's a brilliant businessman , but I just wish he was n't in my business .
14 He 's a brilliant guy .
15 He 's a brilliant passer of a ball and one of the most courageous half-backs I 've seen .
16 He 's a brilliant player . ’
17 He tells Greyhound Life : ‘ He 's a brilliant dog — probably one of the best hurdlers ever . ’
18 He 's a brilliant teacher too .
19 I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field .
20 He was a brilliant speaker and lecturer .
21 He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton .
22 He was a brilliant scholar who graduated , became a Fellow and was ordained before he was twenty-one .
23 And he was a brilliant man .
24 Cos he was a brilliant man actually my my boss er my chief at the time .
25 But he was a brilliant man he was years ahead of his time really .
26 He was a brilliant man .
27 He was a brilliant man who had a great deal of influence — in fact , he was one of the few doges who wielded any real authority .
28 He was a brilliant raconteur , with a wicked wit and a razor tongue , and he had them all in stitches .
29 He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule .
30 I mean and he he although he er he was n't a graduate or anything like that I mean he he was a brilliant engineer .
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