Example sentences of "man was [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she rationalised now , the man was a consummate actor , and even she could n't deny his talent . |
| 2 | This man was a grim-faced stranger , his eyes cold with anger , like chips of blue ice . |
| 3 | If man was a late creation , his Fall could not have brought pain and death into the world ; ferocious dinosaurs , and animal suffering generally , brought grave problems to those seeking a theodicy , justifying the ways of God . |
| 4 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 5 | Afterwards he complained bitterly to other government officers of the uselessness of such a DPR , and on being told of my background , retorted angrily , ‘ Why did n't somebody warn me that the man was a bloody missionary ? ’ |
| 6 | Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman . |
| 7 | The man was a serious user . |
| 8 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 9 | This remarkable man was a loyal supporter of the BDDA all his life and none more worthy could have been chosen to hold the fort as President . |
| 10 | The unknown man was a first-rate orator — Manescu recognized that . |
| 11 | No man was a greater lover of books than he [ Shelley ] . |
| 12 | The best man was a fellow journalist Peter Shephard , and a third journalist , John Cosslett , was one of the ushers . |
| 13 | The man was a cheerful rogue called Kadan . |
| 14 | Sadly , the man was a notorious liar . |
| 15 | You 'd have thought the man was a vid star rather than a murderous bandit . |
| 16 | The man was a raving sadist , she thought , and then realised it was a requirement of his job . |
| 17 | The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver . |
| 18 | It is of course possible that he was wrong in his initial assumption — which would explain why he never expanded his ‘ proof ’ in his notes — but we have to remember that the man was a mathematical genius . |
| 19 | ‘ The Elephant Man was a different approach entirely . |
| 20 | The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor 's past . |
| 21 | The man was a visiting Texan who was in Britain as manager of a fellow countryman , a concert pianist . |
| 22 | Apart from the fact that Anjou was the hereditary enemy of the Normans , the man was a cold-blooded brute who had n't hesitated to let his army of barbarians ravage the Norman countryside even while his father-in-law was still alive . |
| 23 | The man was a lively orator to the end , and an expert in his field . |
| 24 | The young man was an obvious don . |
| 25 | The man was an accomplished seducer , there was no doubt about it . |
| 26 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 27 | Dana had sailed under a blue sky for too long to have any defence against storms , and this man was the worse kind of cyclone . |
| 28 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 29 | Man was the intermediate form . |
| 30 | The fact that the 79-year-old man was the oldest man standing trial for murder this century was an extra ingredient of interest . |