Example sentences of "he [was/were] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any surgical , medical or dental treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 2 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) The consent of a minor who has attained the age of 16 years to any … medical … treatment which , in the absence of consent , would constitute a trespass to his person , shall be as effective as it would be if he were of full age ; and where a minor has by virtue of this section given an effective consent to any treatment it shall not be necessary to obtain any consent for it from his parent or guardian . |
| 4 | He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal . |
| 5 | He was of medium height , with broad shoulders , and , of course , his famous fair complexion and red beard . |
| 6 | Frank Semmens , father of the family , was the essence of gentlemanly courtesy ; he was of medium height , grey haired and looked trim and fit . |
| 7 | He was of medium height and of slim build , with a pale sensitive face . |
| 8 | He was of medium height , with wide shoulders and a strong chest . |
| 9 | He was of medium height , slim and wiry in build with a healthy complexion and short-cut dark hair , a penetrating even-toned deep voice , and small strong hands . |
| 10 | He was of medium height , with dark hair and handsome expressive features which later took on an air of rather gloomy abstraction . |
| 11 | He was of medium height , and had regular , even features of the kind which are instantly forgettable . |
| 12 | He was of medium height and middle age , rather a square man , to match his wife , with square capable fingers at the end of square brown hands . |
| 13 | He was of medium height , with a spare frame , a little unsteady on his feet , perhaps , and with the sallow complexion of recent illness on features that bore a striking resemblance to the girl before him . |
| 14 | He was of International standard as a rugby player and captain of cricket . |
| 15 | All said he was of low intelligence , and as a trump card the defence brought in Professor Hans Eysenck to consider all the evidence . |
| 16 | He was of middle height , well built , possibly in his mid-forties ( though Jane was not much good on ages ) with dark curly hair and slanting eyes which gave him a slightly Slavonic look , though there was not a trace of accent in his speech . |
| 17 | Well-meaning and pious , he was of mediocre intelligence and inherited the timidity which had been one of Louis XV 's greatest weaknesses . |
| 18 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 19 | He was of royal blood , the great grandson of King Sahle Selassie , a second cousin to Menelik and son of the famous Ras Makonnen . |
| 20 | Author also of ‘ Wild Wales ’ , he was of Celtic , indeed , staunch Cornish stock . |
| 21 | He was of short stature . |
| 22 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 23 | He was of noble Norman birth , had studied at the school of Liège , and had been a clerk of William I in Lanfranc 's time . |
| 24 | Many have cited treason ( he was of German descent ) or his hatred of Samsonov . |