Example sentences of "[adj] he be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 2 | For first and ever foremost he is child . |
| 3 | In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 . |
| 4 | About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed . |
| 5 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 6 | From 1977 to 1979 he was chairman of the Food $ Drink Industries Council . |
| 7 | In 1586 he was recorder of the similarly Protestant borough of Maldon . |
| 8 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
| 9 | What do you do with a 46 year-old , 5 foot nothing , exceedingly chubby hubby who 's convinced he 's Batman ? |
| 10 | In fact I am convinced he was part Alsatian because though he had a luxuriant black and white coat there was something significant in the massive limbs and in the noble brown-shaded head with its upstanding ears . |
| 11 | The author 's mother is n't unhappy however about the fame and fortune her boy is enjoying following 13 blood-spattered , intestine-strewn best-sellers , although Hutson himself is coy about how much he is worth . |
| 12 | He knew just how much he was worth . |
| 13 | Between 1970 and 1984 he was finance director of , the European subsidiary of the Chicago based food conglomerate . |
| 14 | From 1928 to 1932 he was attorney-general to the prince of Wales . |
| 15 | When Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 he was head of the party , and known as ‘ Brother Number One ’ . |
| 16 | In 1969 he was Polonius in the Roundhouse , prior-to-Broadway , Hamlet , before returning to the RSC in 1972 and making his National Theatre debut in 1974 . |
| 17 | From 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the faculty board of history and from 1962 to his death he was chairman of the governors of the Cambridge Institute of Education . |
| 18 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 19 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 20 | From 1828 until 1853 he was mathematics tutor of Wadham College , though he was never a fellow . |
| 21 | During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter , as well as builder and architect , of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars . |
| 22 | ‘ Ye 're sure he 's Gómez 's cousin ? ’ |
| 23 | Produced by French keyboard wiz Wally Badarou , and the band themselves , ‘ Guaranteed ’ finds all the old trademarks applied to good effect — the swirling keyboards of Mike Lindup , the old bass-as-lead instrument ploy , and drummer Gary Husband thumping the tubs for all he 's worth . |
| 24 | All he was doing was catering to one particularly backward-looking group of people . |
| 25 | Damien , no doubt , would not have considered this particularly heroic — all he was doing was following his Master in identifying totally with those he had come to save . |
| 26 | Yet all he was doing was not writing , and missing his lawful wife . |
| 27 | After all he was doing for her , she had virtually accused him of trying to seduce her . |
| 28 | He had to rip his jacket free from the wooden beam and , sprawling himself over the chair , held onto the rope for all he was worth . |
| 29 | In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth . |
| 30 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |