Example sentences of "he [be] a highly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he 's a highly successful industrialist , and beyond doubt the most talked about man in town . |
| 2 | He 's a highly talented rider with a hunger for success and if the Yamaha is up to it — and I 've no doubt that it is — than we could be celebrating a single figure placing tomorrow , and that really would be something . |
| 3 | We do n't know him , we do n't trust him and we think he 's a highly suspicious character . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know him , I do n't trust him and I think he 's a highly suspicious character . ’ |
| 5 | She thinks he 's a highly suspicious character . |
| 6 | Her father , whom she obviously dotes on and has the highest respect for , thinks he 's a highly suspicious character — he and Andropulos have n't spoken for years . |
| 7 | He 's a highly respected artist . ’ |
| 8 | He was a highly innovative engineer , introducing developments in boiler design and the use of locomotive exhaust steam for pre-heating the feed water . |
| 9 | After so many years , there was little about the game that he did not know , and tactically he was a highly skilled operator who , his players knew , would stay calm in a crisis . |
| 10 | He was a highly stimulating person who was questioning of the mind , who created his own techniques and formed his own mode of expression unpressurized by fashion . |
| 11 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 12 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 13 | Despite his outer appearance and his bizarre equestrian habits , he was a highly respected practitioner residing first at St James 's and then in Mount Street , off Berkeley Square . |
| 14 | He was a highly respected member of the panel of arbiters and was the founder chairman of the Kelso Agricultural Discussion Society . |
| 15 | ‘ He was a highly decorated ace and no one to date has done his aircraft . |
| 16 | He was a highly sensitized instrument , a finely tuned social and academic barometer . |
| 17 | By 1805 , when Lord Ashburton 's widow commissioned John Nash to design her country retreat , he was a highly fashionable architect . |
| 18 | During his inspection of Nikol'skaia volost' , Yakovlev prided himself on his objectivity in criticizing local party activities , given that he was a highly orthodox representative of the central apparatus with a broad knowledge of all-Russian affairs . |
| 19 | He was a highly reputable and incisive critic of art and culture as well as literature ; a bilinguist of note , and — more important than all those ! — a poet of rare accomplishment ; a poet 's poet . |