Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at St Paul 's School and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he was twenty-second wrangler in 1872 . |
| 2 | My abiding memory is of an acrimonious meeting of British Steel where he was much name-called for closures . |
| 3 | Mr Rowley has moved to the Tubwell Row branch from the Newcastle Building Society where he was general manager . |
| 4 | Samson has had a wide experience in the electronics industry , working with Plessey Co Plc , Standard Telephones and Cables Plc and GEC Plc , where he was managing director of GEC Consumer Products Group until 1989 . |
| 5 | Software engineering house LBMS has appointed Stephen Jermyn to head up its UK CASE sales operations : he joins from Ernst & Young where he was managing director . |
| 6 | It is Ridsdale 's first action since joining the clothing retailer four months ago from Burton group , where he was managing director of Evan and discount concept Is . |
| 7 | Mr Medley jointed WWF in 1978 as Director from Glaxo Laboratories India Ltd where he was Managing Director . |
| 8 | After surviving the acquisition by SunSoft Inc of the greater part of his former employer — Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp — where he was European director , before going to become manager of Northern Europe for Sun Microsystems Inc 's software subsidiary , industry veteran Doug Miller last week resigned from the company ‘ to pursue other interests ’ after Peter Watkins was moved from SunSoft 's Mountain View , California headquarters to take up the newly-created position of general manager for SunSoft in Europe ; Watkins is also responsible for Northern Europe ( which includes the UK ) until a replacement for Miller is found . |
| 9 | James joined the company on May 17 from Forte plc where he was executive director responsible for a group of restaurant businesses . |
| 10 | A COUNCILLOR has lost his claim for unfair dismissal from a do-it-yourself store where he was assistant manager . |
| 11 | Did nt he play at all centre midfield … i seem to remember a goal against scum ( 40 yard lob ) , where he was more left/centre midfield ? ? |
| 12 | Scott was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College , Dublin , where he was classical scholar ( 1853 ) , graduating senior moderator in experimental physics ( 1855 ) , MA ( 1859 ) , and honorary D.Sc . |
| 13 | CAMPAIGNING in Windsor & Maidenhead , where he was Tory candidate , my colleague Michael Trend lifted the tedium by asking voters whither , if Labour won , they would emigrate . |
| 14 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 15 | Newman began his career in the 1890s at Edinburgh University and King 's College , London , where he was senior demonstrator in bacteriology and lecturer on infectious diseases . |
| 16 | He delighted in the young and was assiduous in attendance at the Oxford Union , where he was senior librarian . |
| 17 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 18 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 19 | Fitzroy Maclean was sent off to Persia , and his exploits there fall outside the scope of this book , although he was employing skills learned with the SAS . |
| 20 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 21 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 22 | Although he was nine years older than her , her youth and immaturity must , she realised , have played quite a large part . |
| 23 | He too had been educated at Stowe — although he was three years older — and like Branson he turned an understanding of Sixties culture to profitable advantage . |
| 24 | Not that he was much trouble , and he always gave me what money he could . ’ |
| 25 | That he was sheer virgin . |
| 26 | and so he had a a degree of uniqueness and er in the area that he was vast numbers of ethnic minorities so he was er he was a white male vegetarian |
| 27 | The presence of this pagan tale in a cathedral is strikingly reminiscent of Sigurd 's appearance in Christian contexts on sculptures in northern England , and the possible positioning of the frieze near Cnut 's tomb may imply that he was inviting comparison of his own exploits with those of the Volsungs . |
| 28 | This changed when he became aware not only that he had a personal problem , but that he was that problem . |
| 29 | Had some bold prophet told the King that he was one day to preside over a change of Government wearing a Chinese dressing-gown , he would scarcely have believed his ears . |
| 30 | But of course she could n't ; she had to sit there and be polite , supporting him as the next chairman , knowing that was exactly what he was , knowing no one could handle the job better , and knowing too that he was one day going to get around to handling her … superbly . |