Example sentences of "[subord] he [was/were] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At thirteen he entered Clare Hall , Cambridge , where he was a brilliant and versatile pupil . |
| 2 | In the absence of correspondence , the clearest impression of Sherland 's attitudes and concerns is provided by his contributions in Parliament , where he was a prominent speaker and committee man . |
| 3 | Uxbridge , Middlesex-based VeriFone ( UK ) Ltd has announced the appointment of John Hinds as vice-president and general manager of the International Division of its parent company VeriFone Inc ; Hinds joins the company from AT&T Co where he was a senior vice-president and had been president of the AT&T International arm since 1987 . |
| 4 | DigiBoard has appointed Jon Williams as European marketing manager : Williams joins from Novell Inc , where he was a senior European product manager , and will be based at DigiBoard 's German operation in Cologne . |
| 5 | He was a strong churchman and after seeing two or three patients on a Sunday morning would go without fail to St George 's United Free church , where he was a senior elder . |
| 6 | He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics . |
| 7 | He went to the Revd W. Woods 's private day-school and then to Trinity College , Dublin , where he was a distinguished athlete . |
| 8 | Although he was a good sailor , Columbus was a bad governor . |
| 9 | Although he was a good heraldic artist and wrote a fair hand , he typed almost illegibly . |
| 10 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 11 | Although he was a first offender and there was no suggestion he might try to escape , because of the nature of his offence the governor , Thomas Hayes , decided that Blake should be placed on the escape list . ’ |
| 12 | Philip would sprinkle sugar on Richard 's morning cereal ; lend him clothes ; buy him an expensive raincoat — although he was a thrifty man . |
| 13 | He gained no instant parliamentary fame although he was a useful back-bencher . |
| 14 | Fang would later contest the truth of some of these statements , although he was a self-acknowledged critic of the party leadership . |
| 15 | The most famous exponent of this concept , but not its originator , was the twelfth-century philosopher Moses Maimonides , who wrote in Arabic although he was a believing Jew . |
| 16 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 17 | The Irish language was his paramount concern : in its interests he even praised the British government , although he was a nationalist , and attacked the clergy , although he was a devout Catholic . |
| 18 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 19 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 20 | This was an area where decision-making demanded particular expertise ( which , although he was a diligent learner , de Gaulle did not possess ) and where the danger of his surrendering control to experts was correspondingly great . |
| 21 | he 's better than he was a few years ago and |
| 22 | He had been a nippy winger in Palace 's promotions side of 1963–64 and then acquitted himself well as we consolidated in Division Two , so he was a welcome recruit at Selhurst Park in mid-September 1971 , when Bert Head was restructuring his team in a successful attempt to ensure 1st Division survival . |
| 23 | My family also liked him very much , so he was a welcome visitor to our house . |
| 24 | It was like he was a different person . |
| 25 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 26 | They used to send the stewards round and er you you 'd suddenly see two new people in the congregation and they 'd come to hear the minister preach to see if he was a good preacher and then they 'd go back to report . |
| 27 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 28 | ‘ If he was a real otaku he would n't have left the house and driven around looking for victims . |
| 29 | ‘ Particularly if he was a married gentleman . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Particularly , ’ agreed Thomas , ‘ if he was a married gentleman . |