Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 2 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 3 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 4 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 5 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 6 | ‘ Hullo , ’ said Lili as though he were only an acquaintance . |
| 7 | She asked him if he were still a virgin . |
| 8 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 9 | The secular cleric had the further advantage from the king 's standpoint that he was strictly a life-tenant , unable to transmit his abbacy to a legitimate heir . |
| 10 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |
| 11 | He was both a symptom of , and a resource for , the revival of Classical Art in the 18th century . |
| 12 | Sheepshanks , a leading figure in the Royal Astronomical Society , himself fitted into all three of his categories : he was both a lawyer and a clergyman , and did not practise either profession because he had inherited wealth from his cloth-manufacturing father . |
| 13 | He was both a stand-in skipper and an emergency defender during Liverpool 's successful European trip to Cyprus this week . |
| 14 | He was both the child of the National Education system and its architect . |
| 15 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 16 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 17 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 18 | But he was away a lot , and then it would be up to Janice . |
| 19 | So he was either a man of great courage , or a great masochist . |
| 20 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 21 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 22 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 23 | He was evidently a magister by 1273 ( of Oxford University , according to the fifteenth-century antiquarian William Worcester , q.v. ) , when he was presented to the rectory of Steppingley ( Bedfordshire ) by Dunstable Priory . |
| 24 | In 1925 , considering a book by Cecil Sharp on the history of dancing , Eliot made the criticism that though Sharp was a historian , he was neither a philosopher nor an anthropologist , and so his brief notes were not just insufficient , but actually conducive to error . |
| 25 | He was neither a plotter nor a courtier . |
| 26 | The Gauntletts left a house , the Groves a school and , attacked by a critic for writing patriotic verse when he was neither a soldier nor sailor himself , Sir Henry Newbolt left these lines : |
| 27 | He was neither a hypocrite nor a puritan . |
| 28 | They all assured her that he was probably a multi-millionaire . |
| 29 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 30 | He was probably a Greek from southern Italy . |