Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's librettist for Figaro was himself a controversial and colourful character . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Miloš was himself a rich man , with large estates in Wallachia as well as his Serbian lands . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Frederick was himself a major figure in trade with the Peninsula and Herne succeeded him as head of their joint firm in 1685 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lambert was himself a skilled administrator , with a working knowledge of sanitary reform . |
| 13 | The lure of live music-making is , of course , irresistible : the sense of occasion , of which Karajan was himself a great provider , the throng of music-madded fans and aficionados , not to mention that bear-baiting element Glenn Gould was always so amusing about , as soloists are led out and put to their instruments before the attentive crowd . |
| 14 | If Duncombe was himself an unaccomplished poet , he certainly laboured to promote the work of women whom he believed had been undervalued . |
| 15 | He knew the regiment was fighting somewhere in France , but its exact location was never recorded in the paper , so Charlie was none the wiser . |
| 16 | In addition to drawing heavily on biblical condemnation of the Jews , it must be remembered that Luther was himself an eager student of Hebraic religious literature . |