Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was both a stand-in skipper and an emergency defender during Liverpool 's successful European trip to Cyprus this week . |
| 3 | He was probably the Robert Pemel who obtained an archiepiscopal licence to practise medicine around 1632 . |
| 4 | He was plainly a kind man but his meaning was quite apparent . |
| 5 | He was already a walking compendium on nuclear public inquiries before the hearings started , amassing a library of material on Sizewell in his living room . |
| 6 | There were times when he suspected he was just a meal ticket to her . |
| 7 | His story is certainly fascinating enough to make a biopic : as if being a porn star is n't dodgy enough , he was later a cocaine addict and was involved in a bizarre murder/robbery towards the end of his life . |
| 8 | He was n't a drinking man . |
| 9 | Mind , that did n't mean he was n't a kind bloke , he 'd been very kind to her . |
| 10 | Even though he was n't a poker player , he tried to be one of the guys and belong to the group . |
| 11 | Then a rejection letter arrived from Streatham branch — because he was n't a union member . |
| 12 | Mr Szuluk was refused a clothing grant from the Department of Social Security , which said that because he lived at home with his parents , he was n't a priority case . |
| 13 | Hank said , ‘ He was n't a war profiteer , Daddy . |
| 14 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |
| 15 | He was n't a horse man , himself . |
| 16 | He was n't the Wimbledon Poisoner . |
| 17 | He was he was n't the colour sergeant |
| 18 | He was n't the Tony DeFries that he became . |
| 19 | He was not a country man himself , and I think must have suffered torments of loneliness and boredom . |
| 20 | But he was not a field nigger , he was a house slave . |
| 21 | He was not a music lover , nor was he particularly attracted by any cultural activity . |
| 22 | One of the most heinous of Menzies ' sins was the fact that he was not a Navy man in the tradition of the one-legged Smith-Cumming — who had coined the title ‘ C ’ for holders of the post — or Admiral Sinclair . |
| 23 | If he did not follow this code then he was not a Bwana Shauri of the Masai tribe . ’ |
| 24 | As for coming from Wrath , well , any eagle could tell from his accent and flight that he was not a north-west eagle . |
| 25 | After his election Gallacher applied for the Labour Party whip which , as he was not a Party member and had defeated someone who was , could " not be granted . |
| 26 | But erm he wa , he was not an opera singer you know , he could n't erm |
| 27 | His name , it seemed , was Simkin , and he was not an aircrew cadet like the rest of us but a regular and a member of the groundstaff ; he worked in the kitchens . |
| 28 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 29 | He was also a sun god as Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , and as Horus of Behdet , and was the son of Osiris and Isis as Horus , as Monthu was local to Thebes and became the king 's god of warfare in the New Kingdom , when Thebes was the capital . |
| 30 | Although Nizan 's writings of the period are suffused with acerbic communist ideology , although he was chosen as communist party candidate in Bourg-en-Bresse for the general election of 1932 , although he participated fully in the Universite Ouvriere from its opening in 1932 , during the same period he was also involved in finalising his bourgeois education ( 1927–9 ) , he was also a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1931–2 ) . |