Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Falconer was a man who liked birds , ’ he replied slowly . |
| 2 | So he had , and Sally-Anne knew that , above all , Dr Neil was a man of his word . |
| 3 | George Trumper was a man whose behaviour was unacceptable , not in the same class as his father , whom Tata used to describe as a ‘ mensch ’ . |
| 4 | Antony was a man with considerable respect for individual privacy . |
| 5 | David was a man of high principles , and if he suspected the truth , that she had conceived her son out of wedlock , well … it did n't bear thinking about . |
| 6 | David was a man of energy and activity and he will be missed by so many people . |
| 7 | That was a trifle unexpected , but Rossmayne was a man of honour and good sense . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | if there are lapses , obsessions , aberrations — and few would deny that there are — in the practise of the new style chefs , well , Pomiane was a man with a sense of humour and without a sense of self-importance . |
| 10 | Samson was a man of worldly tastes and habits : he was well connected , well educated , generous and rich . |
| 11 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 12 | MacArthur was a man of brilliant , if flawed , talents . |
| 13 | Bill Holroyd was a man with problems . |
| 14 | She would , herself , have dispensed with the shepherd 's pie , but Memet was a man and a Turk to boot . |
| 15 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 16 | What did this man Tunney — I knew Tunney was a man — have to do with the case ? |
| 17 | Wordsworth was a man of feeling , for an Englishman , but well compared to Oor Rabbie quite frankly he was nothing to write home about . |
| 18 | Wordsworth was a man speaking to men . |
| 19 | It would be a mistake for anyone to infer that Boulestin was a man who had no more sense than to attempt amateur cooking in his own restaurant . |
| 20 | But , unlike most of the other apostles of this sect among the French General Stat– , de Castelnau was a man of outstanding intellect , quick-witted and flexible . |
| 21 | Sir Arthur Fairbairn was a man great enough to shoulder these responsibilities gracefully , tirelessly and successfully , leaving behind him some concrete examples of generosity and philanthropy as well as the memory of a genial heart and a simple soul doing good in an aristocratic manner . |
| 22 | Jason Irwin of Chicago was a man with entrepreneurial flair . |
| 23 | Finch was a man with no zone of indifference and a lifelong distaste for milky kindnesses , which made his present wish to push Henry away and into a career of his own both powerful and covert . |
| 24 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 25 | Swainson was a man of parts , not altogether unlike Darwin in some respects . |
| 26 | Now that says Stephen was a man filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 27 | But they both agreed that Conchis was a man who cherished his privacy . |
| 28 | Mr Attlee once said that Philip Snowdon was a man he deeply admired . |
| 29 | Louis was a man to whom error was unforgivable , in himself as much as in his associates or employees . |
| 30 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |