Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] he was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was quick , ’ Pie said , glancing across at Estabrook and confirming in his glance the suspicion that he was the orphan-maker . |
| 2 | Jesus had shown the way back to God and had demonstrated in his own person that he was the Way , but men and women in order to return to God would need to freely join themselves to the new humanity of Christ . |
| 3 | There was even a belief that he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to walk the earth until Christ 's second coming . |
| 4 | Not because of his background — among Menzies ' credentials was the widely held belief that he was the illegitimate offspring of Edward VII — but because , as Carrington was to slowly learn , the secret services , like most other scions of government and the Establishment , were run by envy , fear and favouritism . |
| 5 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 6 | Simon , for all his shambling manner and muttered speech was a highly articulate young man and Markby had learned upon enquiry that he was the product of a minor public school — although it was doubtful whether the school would have cared to broadcast his presence amongst its alumni . |
| 7 | In such cases the witness can try to identify the voice , but the best evidence is an admission by the offender that he was the caller . |
| 8 | The realization that he was the mouse came instinctively , quickly followed by the slightly ludicrous observation that someone had made a gigantic balls-up . |
| 9 | I think what impressed me most about Heywood was his absolute control of his crew and , in particular , his assurance that he was the boss , despite his tender years and meagre experience . |
| 10 | Of course he was thirteen years older than her , she being but twenty ; but then she would take into consideration that he was the footman and it was a splendid rise for her from kitchen maid . |
| 11 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 12 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 13 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 14 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 15 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 16 | With the retirement of world champion Alain Prost , Frank Williams was left in no doubt that he was the man to partner his nerw signing Ayrton Senna . |
| 17 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 18 | But when MacDonald saw the King again at 10.20 p.m. , to report that he ‘ had no alternative than to tender the resignation of the Cabinet ’ , the King ‘ impressed on the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped he would reconsider the situation . |
| 19 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 20 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 21 | The kids immediately followed him thinking this was proof that he was the right guy . |
| 22 | And so Louis took a standard from Denis as symbol that he was the saint 's vassal ( see p. 105 ) , summoned the feudatories of France , and set off to defend Rheims . |
| 23 | Smith , an ex-army nurse who worked as a counsellor for homosexual soldiers , claimed in his appeal that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice . |
| 24 | Many would dismiss Peter Thompson 's pessimism out of hand were it not for the fact that he was the author of a paper in July 1987 , when the market was at its pre-crash high , called ‘ The End of the Long Bull Market ’ . |
| 25 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
| 26 | Were he alive today he would undoubtedly have bemoaned the fact that he was the frequent target of what he would have probably called ‘ scribblers ’ . |
| 27 | Wright , for example , traded on the fact that he was the agent of a well-known insurance company . |
| 28 | Mr. Warp obtained this P–59 by the fact that he was the highest bidder at a Government scrap sale ! |
| 29 | He will be remembered more for the fact that he was the father of the most famous actress Dame Sybil Thorndyke and her equally famous brother Russell Thorndyke , author of the Dr. Syn stones . |
| 30 | Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt . |