Example sentences of "[that] he [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said later that he s an exceptional talent and only bad luck stopped him scoring , and to keep plugging away . |
| 2 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 3 | Faced with an actor reading , as Alan Bates did for much of his one-man show at Edinburgh this year , you 're tempted to conclude that he 's a little under-rehearsed . |
| 4 | ‘ They say he 's one sort of person when he 's out in the open among people — he can be very sweet — but that he 's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house . ’ |
| 5 | So he had , but I see very clearly now that he 's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick . ’ |
| 6 | Norman is willing to accept the criticism that he 's a white man making a good living from black music . |
| 7 | Since men are usually a bit taller than their female partners , it 's easier if the man can stand so that he 's a little lower than his partner . |
| 8 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |
| 9 | WATCHING Mick Harford recently , it was hard to resist the thought that he 's a prime candidate for any buy-of-the-season award . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's precisely what anyone would expect of a drop-out Phys Ed basketball-playing retard , ’ Ellen said scornfully , ‘ by which I mean that he 's a jock with the brains of a dung beetle . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 12 | One man 's prison sentence is another man 's reprieve , though having escaped a mugging by Tyson , Holyfield understands that he 's still only on bail from the charge that he 's a heavyweight fraud . |
| 13 | There are passages in this book which are curiously enigmatic or coy ; but I 'd recommend it to anyone and I 'd freely tell them about Dennis that he 's a good old boy , a sound socialist , a grassroots climbers . |
| 14 | Look out for a current KSA membership certificate in showrooms — a KSA logo reproduced in a manufacturer 's brochure does n't always indicate the status of the retailer — check that he 's a KSA member in his own right . |
| 15 | Offiah said earlier this week that he 's a lousy loser but nobody likes to lose — he 's not unique . |
| 16 | You can tell , just by walking into Jay Chandler 's house in Shrewsbury , that he 's a keen fishkeeper . |
| 17 | ‘ That he 's a very shrewd and dangerous opponent . |
| 18 | I discovered at the interview that he 's a most amazing snob . |
| 19 | I admit that he 's a brilliant businessman , but I just wish he was n't in my business . |
| 20 | And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him . |
| 21 | Not that he 's a charity either . |
| 22 | that the kids erm as an alternative , the kids could get some help on how to , look at all the reports and extract a couple of positive statements that 's what the emphasis should be , not that he 's a git ! |
| 23 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 24 | It could be that he 's a very poor loser . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Gossip has it that he 's a good accountant , keen on music , and henpecked . |
| 26 | Probably you 'd already gathered that it is n't the first time he 's played similar tricks , and that he 's a law to himself , and comes and goes as he pleases . |
| 27 | My own opinion , for what it 's worth , is that he 's a closet gay . ’ |
| 28 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 29 | What 's funny about Frank Spencer is that he 's a fella . |
| 30 | ‘ And from what you say , ’ said Pooley , consulting the copious notes he had taken throughout their dinner , ‘ apart from a tendency to sleep most of his life away , his only major problem is that he 's a worrier . ’ |