Example sentences of "was a man [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a man with a limited grasp of wider economic or political implications who had set his face against wage restrictions , or even any notion of a social contract . |
| 2 | Lee Harvey Oswald , subsequently arrested for the murder , was a man with a strange past . |
| 3 | In human form he was a man with a tall plumed headdress . |
| 4 | He was a man with a full heart . |
| 5 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 6 | Inside the car was a man in a black leather mask . |
| 7 | There was a man in a dark overcoat and gloves standing by , apparently talking to somebody just out of sight . |
| 8 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |