Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [be] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that brings us back to the idea that he may be a man of style , rather than substance , in terms of differentiating himself from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | ‘ He may be the head of this house but I am your mother and I 'm in charge of you . ’ |
| 3 | He may be the author of the best-selling management book of all time but ‘ that 's Tom for you . |
| 4 | If he makes statements from the Dispatch Box , he should be a man of honour and honour his promises . |
| 5 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
| 6 | The commissioner who conducts the inquiry is appointed by the Lord Chancellor ( in England ) and he must be a barrister of not less than ten years ' standing . |
| 7 | Without a shirt the Frenchman 's body looked lean and hard , and she guessed he must be a man of her own age . |
| 8 | He must be a fixture of the cliche . |
| 9 | ‘ by a person duly licensed to drive it ’ Means that if anyone is in attendance at the vehicle then to escape this regulation he must be the holder of a current driving licence for that class of vehicle . |
| 10 | You ask your daddy , he 'll be a part of it as well , he 'll be in the Brotherhood . ’ |
| 11 | He 'll be the toast of the town . |
| 12 | He might be a prisoner of war . |
| 13 | However , underlying this was his teachers ' deeper concern that he might be a victim of physical and sexual abuse . |
| 14 | He might be a pal of Livingstone 's but there is still nothing to excuse Thompson 's mealy-mouthed attitude. : - . |
| 15 | The bow suggests that he might be the Master of Animals or Enualios , the god of war . |
| 16 | Once again Sunderland had to thank goalkeeper Tony Norman for some inspired saves but at first it seemed that he might be the villain of the piece after gifting bottom-of-the-table Brighton an 11th minute lead . |
| 17 | Kallibunker 's coat was short , sparse and curly , and it was quickly realized that he might be the forerunner of an entirely new breed of pedigree cat . |
| 18 | He could be a disciple of Gordon E. Liddy with his macho bolted-down reserve . |
| 19 | Like this he could be a sack of rubbish . |
| 20 | But he could be the victim of tactical voting , especially in a constituency where there were many complaints about the poll tax . |
| 21 | And suspicions are growing that he could be the victim of a dirty-tricks campaign . |
| 22 | After John Wark gave Ipswich the lead Town fired back … and thoroughly deserved their equaliser … it came from new striker Keith Scott … and on this showing he could be the bargain of the season … |
| 23 | I think he 'd be a bit of a hero for me — he managed to achieve such great things without using violence or hurting anybody . |
| 24 | Doris was always coming weeping and shrieking to Mavis in those days , saying he 'd be the death of her , and meanwhile Fred would reel down the cellar steps and visit the tarts for consolation . |
| 25 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 26 | He had to shore up support among traditional Democrats , and he did ; hence the expectation that he would be the harbinger of a hundred new social policies on everything from vaccination to AIDS . |
| 27 | Nigel knew that he would be the choice of any thinking woman , in spite of Jo 's remarks . |
| 28 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 29 | And he revealed that he had been promised that he would be the subject of a Mental Health Review Tribunal to consider his permanent release within three weeks of returning to Britain . |
| 30 | " Lloyd George would secure a greater hold on the rank and file of our party and he would also be so dependent on that party after the election that he would permanently be driven into the same attitude towards our Party which Chamberlain was placed in before , with this difference — that he would be the leader of it . |