Example sentences of "[was/were] himself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if Ted Hughes were himself the patient , suffering maybe from impotence or castration fears , and was here attempting an autotherapy with Shakespeare as a dummy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( Thus , like retributivists he advocated a proportional tariff , although he was himself a reductivist . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Emperor was himself a prisoner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Town president Pat Darnell was himself a rugby fan until he wandered into the soccer ground at Leicester by mistake , and was converted . |
| 13 | Sir George Sitwell , the father of Edith , Osbert , and Sacheverell , was himself a poet and a formidable antiquary . |
| 14 | Of his brothers the eldest , Lord Herbert of Cherbury , served as Ambassador to France and was himself a poet . |
| 15 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |
| 16 | Morny was himself a partisan of a Russian rather than a British alliance , but a combination of the Tsar 's refusal to move from his position on the Treaty of 1856 and the Emperor 's fear of offending Britain made the attempt useless from the outset . |
| 17 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 18 | Darwin was himself a painter ( also the great grandson of Charles Darwin ) and he positioned himself in a red-damasked office in the Painting School , yet gave a fair crack of the whip to both art and design . |
| 19 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 20 | But then , Nikos was himself a Copt and , yes , under an obligation to Andrus ; might not he be biased in Andrus 's favour ? |
| 21 | It is ironic that the man who did so much to revive Gothic design , Thomas Rickman , was himself a Quaker . |
| 22 | Hugh Sixsmith was himself a screenplay writer of considerable though uncertain reputation . |
| 23 | Unfortunately Brown intended to oppose the interest of Lord Home who was himself a soldier serving in the Netherlands and with many powerful friends there . |
| 24 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 25 | That 's because Toks , a 31-year-old Scottish-born son of a Nigerian father and a Jamaican mother , was himself a victim of one of these injuries in August of 1986 . |
| 26 | ‘ For those who think that this is window dressing , I pause to remind you that not so long ago the Lord Chancellor was himself the subject of judicial review proceedings , ’ he added . |
| 27 | Judge Goldstone was himself the subject of harsh criticism from a number of senior government figures for making " wild suggestions " . |
| 28 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 29 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 30 | Later , students could attend lectures at the Royal Institution by Michael Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) who was himself the son of a blacksmith farrier . |