Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 32 | On the SMH he is almost the oldest , at 31 . |
| 33 | He is still the greatest . |
| 34 | He is still the poorest man in the village . |
| 35 | He has long been hailed as a potential leader , and for many on the Right he is still the Thatcherite hero-in-waiting . |
| 36 | Mr Graham also had words for Seaman , who made a crucial second-half save from Flynn : ‘ He is still the best goalkeeper in the League . |
| 37 | ‘ He is still the best man for the job , ’ declared Kelly . |
| 38 | ‘ He is still the right man for the job , ’ said Kelly and it is now understood the issue will not even be on the agenda when the Football Association holds its annual meeting at Bournemouth on June 26 , a week after the conclusion of the ill-fated US Cup tour . |
| 39 | Though Brutus lost his alpha rank three years ago , and is now fourth down the ladder , he is still the uncontested leader when the group is on the move , and in territorial encounters with neighbouring groups . |
| 40 | He has done evil things , but to me he is still the little boy I loved and cared for . |
| 41 | He is still the same tee-total football maniac he was when Hal Stewart gave him his first Scottish job as player-manager of Morton . |
| 42 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 43 | He is currently the Episcopal Liaison for the National Council for the Lay Apostolate . |
| 44 | He is currently the principal lecturer in Phys in er in Fac Faculty of Environmental Studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic , and in nineteen seventy nine he was appointed a Justice of the Peace . |
| 45 | He is currently the Scottish Secretary of the Society of Dyers and Colourists . |
| 46 | Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit is one of Japan 's most famous characters : he is often the first Englishman encountered by young readers , and the miniature quality of Potter 's stories and illustrations strikes some deep chord in the Japanese heart . |
| 47 | He is certainly the administrative head of a large organization which is responsible for the statistics , but he does not collect data personally from even one household . |
| 48 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 49 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 50 | Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ . |
| 51 | Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ . |
| 52 | He 's also the innocent victim . |
| 53 | Fluffy tailed and foul mouthed , kitted out with size-24 Docs and long floppy ears , Bastard Bunny is not only the ultimate rude boy rabbit , he 's also the best thing to happen in British indie comics for ages . |
| 54 | He 's not much of a character , he 's sort of a cardboard character is n't he , he 's just the other man , the man that they want to marry Juliet . |
| 55 | ‘ He 's just the right man , ma'am , ’ said one of the villagers . |
| 56 | He 's not abnormal he 's just the living dead yeah death warmed up . |
| 57 | He 's just the Persian . |
| 58 | No , no two boys Andrew they think have got it , he 's just the little chubby one I do n't |
| 59 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 60 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |