Example sentences of "that he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 2 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 3 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 4 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 5 | He was in the image too , his laughter , his concern , his ready acceptance that he was somehow a ghost to Tallis ; that he , like Scathach , was shadow , soon to be banished by a night whose coming could not be stopped . |
| 6 | The secular cleric had the further advantage from the king 's standpoint that he was strictly a life-tenant , unable to transmit his abbacy to a legitimate heir . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality . |
| 8 | Coleman had a powerful personality , and Smith admitted that he was also a man of great charm , adding ( on unstated evidence ) that ‘ he had all the cleverness of a woman at turning that advantage to account ’ . |
| 9 | He had laughed , simultaneously mocking the stupidity of government by cosmetics and confessing that he was also a part of it , just as he was part of government by voice coach and acting coach . |
| 10 | Blake managed to stop the first punch reaching its mark , but soon realized that he was also a target and a dozen people lashing out at him and his companion were not good odds . |
| 11 | They all assured her that he was probably a multi-millionaire . |
| 12 | She 'd assumed that he was probably a touch simple . |
| 13 | ‘ You may recall my telling you that he was probably an agent for the High Police . |
| 14 | And facing the fear of the bees helped prove to himself that he was still a man . |
| 15 | Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) . |
| 16 | That he was still a juvenile was evident from the lighter markings on his wings that are lost only in maturity . |
| 17 | Finch always maintained that he was never a hellraiser and that his image was wishful publicity by the press . |
| 18 | Yet the surviving archives of the three principal choral establishments there — New College , All Souls , and Magdalen College — indicate that he was never a member of the permanent staff of any of their chapel choirs . |
| 19 | He goes on to explain that he was never a follower of Spinoza ( the seventeenth-century philosopher , who identified God with Nature ) . |
| 20 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 21 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 22 | Uncomfortably Auguste was made aware in the gentlest way that he was indeed a suspect at this early stage . |
| 23 | And it struck her that he was indeed a son of this wild island , which she had glimpsed so far only briefly , yet which had struck her so vividly . |
| 24 | Outside in the corridor , his mind still easing itself in to the thought that he was now an agent , an M16 man , Carrington met Desmond Morton . |
| 25 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 26 | Mr Santos replied that he was only a shareholder — with 98 per cent of the shares . |
| 27 | I started crying and saying that he was only a minor , that he was n't old enough to be taken away , and had n't done anything . |
| 28 | Hope bought a site for this purpose and acted as the client , although he claimed that he was only the Society 's agent , and it was not ‘ his ’ church . |
| 29 | Early water-colours show him already using some of the techniques of miniature painting , and the scale and meticulous detail of all his work suggest that he was truly a miniaturist at heart . |
| 30 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |