Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 2 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 3 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 4 | He is probably the only adopted English child in these islands . |
| 5 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 6 | I hope he will sign a new contract because I believe he is probably the best target man in Britain . |
| 7 | He is probably the best example of a belief often expressed about the presidency — that the man holding the office grows in stature to fit the highest position in the nation . |
| 8 | His lawyer reckons he is probably the youngest person on Death Row in the world . |
| 9 | That takes Shearer 's tally to 10 goals in 10 games and he is also the Premier League 's leading scorer . |
| 10 | He is also the only intellectual in a town full of morons , except for Major Scott ( T. P. McKenna ) and the well-meaning vicar ( Colin Welland ) . |
| 11 | He is also the regular panelist along with Eamon Dumphey ( former Milwall ‘ player ’ ) on all the Irish international games . |
| 12 | He is also the honoured fellow entrusted with the task of pulling together ‘ Rubaiyat ’ , the 38-track celebration of Elektra 's 40th anniversary . |
| 13 | He is also the honoured fellow entrusted with the task of pulling together ‘ Rubaiyat ’ , the 38-track celebration of Elektra 's 40th anniversary . |
| 14 | He is also the self-appointed heckler-in-chief to the Tories . |
| 15 | His name is Jack Russell and he is also the best wicketkeeper in England . |
| 16 | But while he becomes an instant hero , he is also the instant target of terrorist Sean Miller ( Sean Bean ) whose baby brother has been killed in the attack . |
| 17 | A former youth runner for Britain and a world class rock climber in his teens , he is also the youngest person to hold the top ‘ grandmaster ’ karate grade of Judan Hanshi and the highest graded Westerner in the martial arts of kung-fu and aikido . |
| 18 | He is also the Royal Family 's favourite and even managed to produce a stunning portrait of Fergie in 1988 . |
| 19 | He is also the latest discovery of British psychologist Dr Neil O'Connor , the world 's foremost expert on savants and the man who has spent the past ten years helping to unlock the genius trapped within their flawed minds . |
| 20 | . He is also the formal point of contact between the group and the client and as such he is required to coordinate the group 's , group 's activities on a giv given project . |
| 21 | He is both the unique bearer of the Spirit , and the unique dispenser of that Spirit to the disciples ; moreover , for ever afterwards the Spirit remains stamped with his character . |
| 22 | At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world . |
| 23 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 24 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 25 | He is perhaps the best hooker in the world game and he has been nowhere , played against nobody overseas . |
| 26 | Simon confronts the ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ on the pigs head and he battles with evil , he is now the only one who can save the boys from their evil doings . |
| 27 | He is now the Grand Old Man of the British novel , as was recognized by the Nobel committee . |
| 28 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 29 | He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago . |
| 30 | Jnandas a poet of medieval India expressed the joy and aspirations of the humble soul who knows that within him is the divine spark , and he is therefore the All for which the festival is planned . |