Example sentences of "he [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 2 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 3 | Prof Tim Congdon , from Lombard Street Research in the City , is the only one who wants Mr Lamont to take £3 billion out of the economy in taxes this coming year and £4.5 billion in 1993-94 , but that is to balance a loose monetary policy and another cut in interest rates , which he thinks is the best way of stimulating demand without fuelling inflation . |
| 4 | Ive always liked him , and said that all he lacked was the domineering touch . |
| 5 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 6 | A partner in the Washington DC and Century City ( CA ) offices , he has been the principal corporate and litigation lawyer for Princess Cruises for the past five years . |
| 7 | However , since then , Walsh , Gloucestershire 's beneficiary for 1992 , has not only enjoyed the best Test match spell of his career but , in revitalised fashion , he has been the early pace-setter by some margin in the English first-class bowling averages . |
| 8 | One of the most important trends of the past 20 years in HE has been the increased participation of women . |
| 9 | One of the major factors influencing forecasts of the demand for HE has been the social class of the entrant . |
| 10 | He has been the national drivers ' champion , the first national driver to exceed a hundred miles an hour with a five hundred C C hydroplane on Lake Windermere , won the B class championships seven times , the C class champion six times , the D class three times and the F class once . |
| 11 | Outside the House of Commons , he has been the Scottish editor for the Sunday Times since 1987 . |
| 12 | Scholars of the development of the English language know that generic he has been the undisputed standard usage for less than two centuries . |
| 13 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 14 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 15 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 16 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 17 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 18 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 20 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 21 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 22 | In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability . |
| 23 | That was until Norman Tebbit spotted what he believed was the biggest chance of holing the impenetrable protective layer around the bill . |
| 24 | As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 . |
| 25 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 26 | The third was the treatment by similars which he stated was the only sure way , apart from prevention , to treat disease . |
| 27 | The gráwe roc he wears is the seamless robe Christ wore to the Crucifixion ; in the end Orendel becomes der Graurock , ‘ Greycloak ’ , is identified with his garment . |
| 28 | The earliest he cites is the first side of ‘ A Miniature Concert ’ , recorded on 26 February 1925 and issued on Victor 35753 ( and in Britain on Zonophone A302 ) . |
| 29 | However even in other countries the honour he gets is the wrong sort . |
| 30 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |