Example sentences of "he was [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 2 | He was a member of the BIE National Education Committee where he did sterling work in a quiet and unassuming way and represented the Institute on the TEFS Committee where he was involved with the revisions required for NVQ . |
| 3 | He was involved in the charities and voluntary organisations PR seminar , and has volunteered to be public relations and marketing director for Junior Chamber Aberdeen next year . |
| 4 | There is some evidence that he was involved in the negotiations for property , and he certainly became associated publicly with the great success of the firm . |
| 5 | The Strathclyde Police spokesman , Supt Angus Kennedy , said he was disappointed at the comments attributed to spokesmen for other Scottish forces . |
| 6 | While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . |
| 7 | He had been provoked — and it is well to remember that he was then , and continues to this day to be , happily married to a beautiful and supportive wife — into seeking to continue the deception by a personal statement in the Commons in which he averred that he was innocent of the allegations and a wronged man . |
| 8 | Zaidie 's deposition , it should be added , contained a statement that about 20 or 21 December 1986 , on Zaidie 's return from his honeymoon in Miami , the defendant had telephoned him and had said he was sorry for the threats he had made against the lives of Zaidie and Paulette . |
| 9 | ‘ He was right about the legs , anyway . ’ |
| 10 | And Richard Collin , director of central services for Darlington Council , said he was uncertain of the implications of a Liberal Democrat victory . |
| 11 | It was not that Mr Grey 's enthusiasm for selling books had waned , rather that he was convinced of the advantages of diversification . |
| 12 | Child and adult education was one of Peto 's principal concerns , since he was convinced of the merits of progressive education as well as the usefulness of psychoanalysis . |
| 13 | But she saw that he was intrigued with the words — with the insane idea of ‘ lt . |
| 14 | An amateur artist himself , he was intrigued by the drawings Vincent had brought along with him . |
| 15 | He was intrigued by the relationships between the presence of certain abnormal intestinal bacteria which had lost the ability to ferment glucose and the diseases suffered by the patients who harboured them . |
| 16 | India 's Environment Minister , Kamal Nath , said that he was dissatisfied with the conditions governing aid to developing nations to help them produce alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 17 | The Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) then asked if he was pleased with the results ( he had answered Yes/No to this question in the Questionnaire ) and was he happy about his departmental predictions of results . |
| 18 | As a board member of Essex Training and Enterprise Council he was pleased at the measures to help train the long term unemployed . |
| 19 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 20 | Admitting that he was easy on the eyes was simple artistic honesty . |
| 21 | He was upset about the kids . |
| 22 | It is known that he was proficient in the sciences of the time , as well as being a considerable linguist . |
| 23 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
| 24 | Chapuisat , 23 , admits he was impressed with the Scots in Sweden , ‘ but not overawed ’ . |
| 25 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 26 | Dr Philip Mannion at Chester public health laboratory said he was delighted with the results so far . |
| 27 | He was conciliatory towards the Lords over jurisdiction and towards the Crown over prerogative . |
| 28 | He was new to the Trades Union Movement but the union movement was relatively new to Australia . |
| 29 | There were limits , however , to how far he was ready to stimulate German demand to help other countries and he was critical of the Americans , British and others for doing too little to tackle inflation . |
| 30 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |