Example sentences of "[adj] he [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 2 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 3 | In 1895 he was appointed to succeed William Adams [ q.v. ] as locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway , where he had new and well-equipped locomotive workshops built in Eastleigh to replace the existing inadequate facilities in Nine Elms in London . |
| 4 | In 1895 he was made a director of the Bank of England , becoming deputy governor in 1911 and governor in 1913 . |
| 5 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 6 | In this he was encouraged by the Unitarian minister Mr Tarrant and a new friend , the literary critic James Ashcroft Noble . |
| 7 | On this he was adamant and unswerving , however much his father might extol the supreme chance at Oxford to make contacts for a future career , as yet undefined . |
| 8 | In this he was mistaken . |
| 9 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 10 | In this he was the opposite of Reinhardt . |
| 11 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
| 12 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |
| 13 | With this he was able to melt several substances previously regarded as infusible . |
| 14 | To endorse this he was writing to a young Quaker girl in Norwich with the intention of marriage . |
| 15 | Much of this he was to achieve , though he received little thanks for it from the Parisians who , in large part , remained hostile to the regime . |
| 16 | In this he was joined by Dennis Hopper , who was equally ecstatic . |
| 17 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 18 | Bede 's main object in life was to transmit his knowledge in intelligible form to his contemporaries and successors , and in this he was eminently successful . |
| 19 | In this he was probably hoping to answer those who had claimed that fear was the cause of his failure to appear during the campaign at Valencia . |
| 20 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |
| 21 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
| 22 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |
| 23 | He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability . |
| 24 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 25 | Besides this he was stunningly handsome . |
| 26 | When he saw this he was further enraged and started towards the seer with an axe . |
| 27 | On this he was narrowly over-ruled . |
| 28 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 29 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 30 | He was used to handling a great variety of young men , and his piercing stare , as he considered the request , made Hank quail ; he had a suspicion that Peter Dawson could make his wife quail at times , and in this he was right . |