Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's librettist for Figaro was himself a controversial and colourful character . |
| 2 | Mrs Flaherty was what the nans called the Wrong Element . |
| 3 | Once the United States was itself a colony and fought hard for its freedom and independence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lord Harlech was himself an admirable choice to lead the newcomers but it was unwise and insensitive to use the family name in the title of an ITV station half of which belonged to the West Country . |
| 6 | One of his main claims was that MI5 had been fully penetrated by Russian intelligence which led to the allegations that Roger Hollis was himself a Russian mole . |
| 7 | Hugh Sixsmith was himself a screenplay writer of considerable though uncertain reputation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not that Segesta was itself a Greek community : the Segestans were Elymiots , that is , natives , of some kind not yet understood , although the scribblings from their vases are in Greek letters , Kokalos , 1967 , pp. 233ff. and their architecture was Greek . |
| 10 | Even when he was optimistic about the RPF 's prospects , his vision and language were sombre , even somewhat threatening : the RPF was itself a wave , a huge cleansing wave coming from the depths of the national consciousness . |
| 11 | Theodor Reinhart was himself an art collector , and was undoubtedly a strong motivating influence on his son . |
| 12 | Nevertheless Tolkien was himself a Christian , and he faced a problem in the ‘ theory of courage ’ he so much admired : its mainspring is despair , its spirit often heathen ferocity . |
| 13 | Town president Pat Darnell was himself a rugby fan until he wandered into the soccer ground at Leicester by mistake , and was converted . |
| 14 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 15 | Exxon was itself the subject of 150 lawsuits by this time [ for earlier legal proceedings see p. 36606 ] . |
| 16 | Judge Goldstone was himself the subject of harsh criticism from a number of senior government figures for making " wild suggestions " . |
| 17 | R. J. Campbell was himself a highly successful , because dramatic and controversial , preacher who eventually left Congregationalism for the Church of England . |
| 18 | Miloš was himself a rich man , with large estates in Wallachia as well as his Serbian lands . |
| 19 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 22 | Soldiering was what the Colonel understood . |
| 23 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 24 | Alford was none the less made a deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1627 , his services being considered essential to the defence of the county . |
| 25 | Frederick was himself a major figure in trade with the Peninsula and Herne succeeded him as head of their joint firm in 1685 . |
| 26 | Hyannis , Massachusetts-based Fibronics International Inc 's main launch at Cebit was what the company claims is the industry 's most powerful development engine for graphical management of SNMP-based devices . |
| 27 | What were you took to him Joyce were it the video or television ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Seth was himself a charming drug-addicted , dope-dealing , pimping , strip-show barker who found what looked like salvation and wrote the novel that won him acclaim and rebirth . |
| 30 | Matters were made worse by the fact that Ruiz-Giménez was himself a practising Catholic and had , on appointment , sworn allegiance to the principles of the Francoist Movement , while Laín and Tovar were both erstwhile Falangists . |