Example sentences of "he be of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is still referred to as Thatcherite but as that term begins to lose its currency my own view of him is of a free marketeer with a strong sense of economic realism . |
| 2 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 3 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 4 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 5 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 6 | He is of a much better class than myself . |
| 7 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 8 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 9 | In July 1842 , the master noted that James Paine , an able-bodied man , ‘ objects and refuses to attend divine worship on the grounds that he is of no persuasion , and that he will not attend in a place like this , where they act contrary to scripture in parting man and wife ’ . |
| 10 | He is of the opinion that Mr Prescott has probably given wide broadcast of these questions . ’ |
| 11 | Entre la vie et la mort ( 1968 ) depicts the drama of a writer 's struggle with language and the processes of creation , aware as he is of the potentially enslaving power of words . |
| 12 | Indeed , he is of the opinion that entertaining people with his ‘ music ’ is even more satisfying than experiencing carnal relations . |
| 13 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 14 | Do you mean he represents a Lebanese faction like Islamic Jihad or that he is of the Hezbollah , the Party of God ? ’ |
| 15 | Do n't be put off by old ‘ Crazy Horse ’ Emlyn — he is of the high-pitched voice and cheesy grin . |
| 16 | Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily . |
| 17 | ‘ The [ financier ] , wrote Angell , ‘ has no country , and he knows , if he be of the modern type , that arms and conquests and jugglery with frontiers serve no ends of his … ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's of the opinion that the fire originated in the nose cone and was caused by an internal explosion . |
| 19 | Well I I think er he 's of the age where he was unwilling to learn . |
| 20 | Well you might find as he 's got a good , good disciplined school he 'll Unless of course he 's of the opposite |
| 21 | The boy had survived up till now mostly because he was of no particular interest to anyone — at least , not sufficient to surmount the barrier of that protective shadow with those fearsome teeth . |
| 22 | If they saw him , he was of no significance . |
| 23 | He was of a more literary bent , and wrote a biography of King Louis , as well as a book on ethics and business titled Put Money In My Purse ) . |
| 24 | He 'd come to the conclusion that he was of a completely different species to Leila and her people . |
| 25 | Mr. Burgess answered : ‘ My main reason was I did not consider that he was of a sound disposal mind . ’ |
| 26 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 27 | It is said that he was of a delicate constitution in early life , and was accordingly placed in the care of his uncle , Mr Greener of Hallgarth , near Winlaton . |
| 28 | He was of a somewhat anxious and dependent temperament , especially when faced with persecution . |
| 29 | A proud , often sarcastic , hypercritical man , he was of a handsome and impressive bearing , scrupulous in appearance , but he had few close friends . |
| 30 | He was of a shy , diffident , and even morbid temperament , a characteristic which enabled him to mix on more intimate terms than other collectors with the somewhat shy but more forceful and eccentric Turner . |