Example sentences of "[num] he [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 2 | By the 1830s he was a revered scientist and had invented an electromagnetic coil machine . |
| 3 | In the Seventies he was a regular visitor to Joe Allens in Covent Garden where he went with his mother . |
| 4 | Between 1971 and 1975 he was a vital force in British music — and those are exactly the years covered by Best Of The Mercury Years ( Mercury ) . |
| 5 | By 1672 he was a close friend of Robert Hooke [ q.v. ] , as the latter records in his diary ; the two men met frequently to discuss linguistic matters . |
| 6 | By 1824 he was a salaried managing partner . |
| 7 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 8 | In chapter 33 he is a noble figure of godlike magnanimity . |
| 9 | In World War I he was a crucial mediator between the Russian and British governments when the former borrowed huge amounts of sterling for munition purchases and support of the rouble . |
| 10 | From 1975–77 he was a first-class umpire . |
| 11 | Consequently , at the age of nine he was a pale , thin child and short for his age . |
| 12 | In 1971 he was a key figure in the Oz magazine obscenity trial . |
| 13 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 14 | From 1864 he was a consulting analytical chemist in London ; he also taught at St Saviour 's Grammar School , the School of Medicine for Women , and the City of London College . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1640s and 1650s he was a prolific and energetic professional newsletter writer . |
| 16 | From 1646 he was a Presbyterian elder of St Dunstan's-in-the-West , Fleet Street , the church of William Strong [ q.v. ] , a prominent Independent ; Allen himself could well be described as an Independent in the later stages of his life . |
| 17 | At the age of eighteen he was a senior aircraftsman . |
| 18 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |