Example sentences of "[was/were] he the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 3 | Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ? |
| 4 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 5 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 6 | Was he the only son ? |
| 7 | Was he the real reason for her still being a widow ? |
| 8 | Was he the bloody-handed slayer stalking his victims ? |
| 9 | As of when was he the feminist gospel . |