Example sentences of "he was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Robinson v. Graves ( 1935 ) the Court of Appeal held that a contract whereby an artist agreed to paint a client 's portrait for him was not a contract of sale of goods . |
| 2 | The twitch broadened fractionally into what might have been a smile on anyone else but on him was just a rearrangement of composed features . |
| 3 | The secular cleric had the further advantage from the king 's standpoint that he was strictly a life-tenant , unable to transmit his abbacy to a legitimate heir . |
| 4 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |
| 5 | He was both a symptom of , and a resource for , the revival of Classical Art in the 18th century . |
| 6 | Sheepshanks , a leading figure in the Royal Astronomical Society , himself fitted into all three of his categories : he was both a lawyer and a clergyman , and did not practise either profession because he had inherited wealth from his cloth-manufacturing father . |
| 7 | He was both a stand-in skipper and an emergency defender during Liverpool 's successful European trip to Cyprus this week . |
| 8 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 9 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 10 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 11 | But he was away a lot , and then it would be up to Janice . |
| 12 | So he was either a man of great courage , or a great masochist . |
| 13 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 14 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 15 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 16 | He was evidently a magister by 1273 ( of Oxford University , according to the fifteenth-century antiquarian William Worcester , q.v. ) , when he was presented to the rectory of Steppingley ( Bedfordshire ) by Dunstable Priory . |
| 17 | In 1925 , considering a book by Cecil Sharp on the history of dancing , Eliot made the criticism that though Sharp was a historian , he was neither a philosopher nor an anthropologist , and so his brief notes were not just insufficient , but actually conducive to error . |
| 18 | He was neither a plotter nor a courtier . |
| 19 | The Gauntletts left a house , the Groves a school and , attacked by a critic for writing patriotic verse when he was neither a soldier nor sailor himself , Sir Henry Newbolt left these lines : |
| 20 | He was neither a hypocrite nor a puritan . |
| 21 | They all assured her that he was probably a multi-millionaire . |
| 22 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 23 | He was probably a Greek from southern Italy . |
| 24 | ‘ He was probably a stranger — just a visitor , ’ she said , ‘ who might easily have rushed away . |
| 25 | Here , he was probably a nation of one . |
| 26 | She 'd assumed that he was probably a touch simple . |
| 27 | He was probably an actor she had hired to impersonate one . |
| 28 | ‘ You may recall my telling you that he was probably an agent for the High Police . |
| 29 | These traits in Gandhi were no accident : he was profoundly a creature of the Anglo-Indian interaction , and a worthy adversary was indeed just what he aspired to be . |
| 30 | He was plainly a kind man but his meaning was quite apparent . |