Example sentences of "was he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 2 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 3 | ‘ Was he the first , Cal ? ’ |
| 4 | Was he the type of the world into which they had so unthinkingly plunged ? |
| 5 | As of when was he the feminist gospel . |
| 6 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 7 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 8 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 9 | Was he the real reason for her still being a widow ? |
| 10 | Nor was he the only one to see hope amid chaos . |
| 11 | Was he the cause of Emily 's distress ? |
| 12 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Was he the one who was fighting in Spain ? ’ |
| 14 | The Holy Spirit was not to be confined to the narrow straits of Jewish respectability , nor was he the perquisite of the Church leadership . |
| 15 | Was he the man from the PR agency ? |
| 16 | ‘ Was he the baby 's father ? ’ |
| 17 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 18 | Was he the cause of all that fuss on the phone ? |
| 19 | Was he the punished criminal aberration ? |
| 20 | Was he the reason Cornelius had lured them to Burford that day ? |
| 21 | Nor was he the only one to do so . |
| 22 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 23 | Was he the man who had held her ? |
| 24 | Was he the drinking kind ? |
| 25 | Was he the author of the letter ? |
| 26 | Was he the assassin ? |
| 27 | Subject : Was he the lad who … |
| 28 | Was he the first to do it ? |
| 29 | Was he the murderer ? the coroner wondered . |
| 30 | Was he the bloody-handed slayer stalking his victims ? |