Example sentences of "[was/were] he the [adj] [noun] " 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 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 10 | As of when was he the feminist gospel . |