Example sentences of "he [is] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Liberal Democrats treasury spokesman Alan Beith , MP for Berwick , said he is confident of a surge in support for his party . |
| 2 | In the l er in the letter He is confident of the sil salvation . |
| 3 | In this sense he is symbolic of the nationalistic cause , either to restore Germany to her former glories , or to justify and inspire territorial ambitions . |
| 4 | In his 1842 ‘ Irish Sketchbook ’ William Makepeace Thackeray has compliments to pay , all the more valuable because he is critical of a great many other , better-known places which he visited during his tour of Ireland . |
| 5 | He is critical of the high cost and low success rate of the ET scheme . |
| 6 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 7 | In , his autobiography he is critical of the quality of his local officials who , under pressures from their members , came to be seen as " relieving officers coming to the assistance of every seaman who is down and out " whether their hard luck stories were true or not . |
| 8 | In the main , he is critical of the trend towards over-watering and over-feeding , and explains their detrimental effect on the condition of British courses . |
| 9 | However , he is critical of the staffing levels in the prison 's acute psychiatric unit , the lack of racial minorities amoung the inmates and the effects of stress on staff . |
| 10 | He is founder-director of the Northern Regional Development Company , which aims to bring businesss to the area . |
| 11 | He is convinced of the value that foreign companies — such as BP — add to Angola 's development . |
| 12 | A square-jawed bull-dog of a man , he is Principal of the University of Rhodesia — ‘ the only truly multi-racial university East of the Atlantic , and maybe the only multi-racial institution South of the Zambesi . ’ |
| 13 | WAQAR Younis still insists he is innocent of the charge of ball-tampering |
| 14 | Chalmers 's family has maintained that he is innocent of the charges of which he has been convicted , and say they will continue to fight to prove it . |
| 15 | He is pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey and chairman of the trustees of the Science Museum in South Kensington . |
| 16 | Instead of being ashamed of our antiques , he is proud of the old rubbish ! |
| 17 | He is proud of the speed at which the whole launch was achieved , from an announcement in September 1990 to having all five aircraft operating by Easter 1991 . |
| 18 | He is proud of the verisimilitude . |
| 19 | He is proud of the fact that in November 1875 , shortly after the bridge was completed , there was a huge flood accompanied by ice , and the water rose 14in above the underside of the girders . |
| 20 | He is typical of the moderate blacks now being elected in many states . |
| 21 | Although he is supportive of the general trend of de-hospitalising labour wards in the NHS , he dislikes what he calls the evangelism of the active birth movement . |
| 22 | If that be not done , he is guilty of a technical offence : Brunfaut v. Neilson ( 1893 ) 20 R. ( t. ) 68 . |
| 23 | There is then a question whether he is guilty of an offence if the mistake he makes is an unreasonable one , or whether any mistake will exculpate . |
| 24 | The problem is that he is jealous of the new baby . |
| 25 | Perhaps he is jealous of the players who were offered huge sums of money for to tour , while he was n't . |
| 26 | He is sceptical of the existence of any such thing as postmodern culture . |
| 27 | He is sufficient of a realist to concede at the end of his argument that in fact they did not support him , but supported the argument on behalf of the Attorney-General . |
| 28 | He is joint-treasurer of the Conservative Party . |
| 29 | He is admiring of the soldiers ' courage but not persuaded by their beliefs : training people to sacrifice themselves produces not altruism but a fascinated following of others to death not so much to help but merely to follow ( p. 88 ) . |
| 30 | Simmel emphasizes the paradoxical nature of culture , recognizing the essentially positive process of modernity which has allowed for hitherto unimaginable possibilities ; but he is wary of the forces which lead towards reification and autonomy , both of which are inimical to human interests . |