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 . |