Example sentences of "be himself a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been himself a year ago . |
| 2 | In so far as the typical client can be identified from the survey information , he is likely to be a male owner-occupier aged between 25 and 34 and be himself a member of the professional or employers and managers socio-economic group . |
| 3 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 4 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 5 | Howarth , a fellow student of Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies ( who wrote the Trumpet Sonata , Op.1 , for him ) in Manchester in the 1950s , is himself a trumpet player as well as a specialist conductor of contemporary music . |
| 6 | Except that Eupolis , our narrator and celebrator of these blisses , is himself a cynic . |
| 7 | But , in terms of the tragicomical life of the book , such a reader is himself a fiction , and an empty one . |
| 8 | The debtor may then ( with the court 's approval ) make a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors ; but if this is not done he will be adjudicated bankrupt , and the whole of his property ( not including property of which he is himself a trustee , or — up to the value of £250 — the tools of his trade and the necessary clothing and bedding of himself and his family ) will vest in the ‘ official receiver ’ ( a public officer ) or some other trustee , and become divisible among his creditors who prove their debts . |
| 9 | It was worth every mile , and somehow the travelling was particularly appropriate , for he is himself a travelling man , at home everywhere and nowhere . |
| 10 | The church approached Darlington fire sub officer Brett Clayton who lives in the village and is himself a collector of fire engines . |
| 11 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 12 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 13 | The walk was started by T.V. star Fred Wedlock who is himself a railway enthusiast . |
| 14 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 15 | If he is himself a Director , he shall be entitled in such circumstances as aforesaid to exercise the vote or votes of the Director or Directors for whom he is an alternate in addition to his own vote . |
| 16 | The reason for Mr Ojukwu 's new enthusiasm for the right is the choice of a Christian Ibo from the east , Sylvester Ugoh , as running-mate for Mr Tofa , who is himself a Muslim from the Hausa heartland in the north . |
| 17 | Where the landlord is himself a leaseholder , the draftsman should have in mind the length of the landlord 's own lease . |
| 18 | Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game . |
| 19 | ( Thus , like retributivists he advocated a proportional tariff , although he was himself a reductivist . ) |
| 20 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 21 | He was already a person of some eminence in Nonconformist circles , too ; he and his Methodist wife had enjoyed the distinction of being married by John Wesley in 1774 , and by 1799 he was himself a deacon in the General Baptist movement . |
| 22 | The Emperor was himself a prisoner . |
| 23 | The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill . |
| 24 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 25 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 26 | These were the Bani Umayyah , whose head , Abu Sofian , was a particularly determined opponent of Muhammad during the early years of the propagation of his message , and the Bani Hashem , of which Muhammad was himself a member . |
| 27 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 28 | Town president Pat Darnell was himself a rugby fan until he wandered into the soccer ground at Leicester by mistake , and was converted . |
| 29 | Sir George Sitwell , the father of Edith , Osbert , and Sacheverell , was himself a poet and a formidable antiquary . |
| 30 | Of his brothers the eldest , Lord Herbert of Cherbury , served as Ambassador to France and was himself a poet . |