Example sentences of "he was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was the only one not swooning over Kezia Lehmann . |
| 2 | He was the Director : he could lecture on whomever he liked . |
| 3 | Quite apart from his business acumen ( by the end of his commercial life he was the head of the largest clothing manufacturers — which his father had acquired earlier , originally named Freedmans — in the British dominions , as well as chairman or president of the most important trade bodies related to that industry ) he held very senior positions in such organisations as the Baron de Hirsch Institute , the Montreal Reform Club , the Montefiore Club , the Montreal Insurance Co , the Jewish Public Library , the Hebrew Educational Institute , the Canadian Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers in Europe , the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress , the Canadian Colonisation Committee , the Zion Athletic Club , the Zionist Organisation of Canada , and many , many more . |
| 4 | He was to be frequently found at various ‘ gigs ’ with his Buckskin Boys — a square-dance group of three , of which he was the leader . |
| 5 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 6 | He was the great love of her life . |
| 7 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 8 | Budworth is particularly important because he was the first fell walker to record his ascents with the same attitude and feelings as we have today . |
| 9 | When Moby and I met , he was the biggest Great Dane I 'd seen and full of confidence ! |
| 10 | I could have become fond of the bearded man even though he was the clumsiest chap I knew . |
| 11 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 12 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |
| 13 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 14 | In appearance tall , bald and gangling , eyes alight with pleasure , tufts of hair in disarray , he was the personification of a slightly mad professor . |
| 15 | The prosecution says he was the driver of the Renault 25 . |
| 16 | He was the one who helped produce the Bush campaign 's dirtiest — and most effective — commercials during the 1988 campaign , including the ones hitting Mr Dukakis on his liberal prison furloughs and filthy Boston harbour . |
| 17 | At the Old Vic seasons at the New Theatre ( now the Albery ) , he was the tetchy Cauchon in Saint Joan and Claudius with the company at Elsinore in 1950 . |
| 18 | He was the worse for wear in another sense , come the end of the evening . |
| 19 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
| 20 | Mr Rampton suggested if Lord Aldington had not known what would happen to the Yugoslavs , he was the only person in his corps who did not . |
| 21 | She had no formal education at all and was brought up by her paternal grandmother at Myrtle Grove , Youghal , which had been the home of Sir Walter Raleigh when he was the Governor of Ireland . |
| 22 | He was the third high-ranking RUC officer to be murdered in Northern Ireland this year |
| 23 | He was the possessor of learning which he shared unselfishly with his students , making them feel it was just as much theirs as his . |
| 24 | He was the only child of a rich , upper-class and cultivated Jewish family , distantly related to the Samuels , Lyons , Glucksteins . |
| 25 | He was the one with the distant , distracted look and the voice which sounded as though it were the product of an experiment by Dr Timothy Leary . |
| 26 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | He was the instigator . |
| 29 | The gentleman from Whitehall not only knew best ; he was the unacknowledged legislator of the world , who had ( indirectly at least ) won the war . |
| 30 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |