Example sentences of "was a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Archie Cousins was a loafer whose sharp nose pointed him at everything except honest toil . |
| 2 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 3 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 4 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |
| 5 | He was a man whose sexual energies had been forced inwards through his crippling disease , and had taken the form of mental passion which found relief in meticulous scholarship and mild prurience . |
| 6 | He was a man whose frightening appearance commanded instant respect . |
| 7 | The Hauz Khas medresse was a college whose academic reputation was as wide as the Sultanate itself . |
| 8 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 9 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 10 | The other was an algorithm which integrated bottom-up and top-down knowledge sources ( Srihari , Hull and Choudhari , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It was an offer which many women of good family in the area would have been delighted to accept . |