Example sentences of "he was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view is that he was unacceptable because he was working class , lived in a council flat , and was in debt to the Housing Executive . |
| 2 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 3 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 4 | He was fourteen years older than Jeanne , barely able to support himself , let alone a wife , a weakling unfit for army service , a bohemian , a drunk and , worst of all , a Jew . |
| 5 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 6 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 7 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 8 | It all started when he was eleven months old . |
| 9 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 10 | Born in 1906 , he was eleven years younger than Leavis but far more precocious , and spent his early teaching life , as a pupil and disciple of his Cambridge mentor I. A. Richards , in the Far East . |
| 11 | He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team . |
| 12 | ‘ He was Rosalli Gabrielli 's manager . |
| 13 | He was total anti-establishment were n't he ? |
| 14 | He was 68 years old . |
| 15 | He was 68 years old . |
| 16 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |
| 17 | Samson has had a wide experience in the electronics industry , working with Plessey Co Plc , Standard Telephones and Cables Plc and GEC Plc , where he was managing director of GEC Consumer Products Group until 1989 . |
| 18 | He was managing director of Yale & Valor Plc until 1991 when it was acquired by Williams Holdings Plc . |
| 19 | Software engineering house LBMS has appointed Stephen Jermyn to head up its UK CASE sales operations : he joins from Ernst & Young where he was managing director . |
| 20 | Sir Roy was a popular choice ; he was managing director of Sainsbury 's , the retail grocery chain , and was shown to be a pragmatic and sensible man accustomed to issues relating to the provision of complex services . |
| 21 | It is Ridsdale 's first action since joining the clothing retailer four months ago from Burton group , where he was managing director of Evan and discount concept Is . |
| 22 | Mr Medley jointed WWF in 1978 as Director from Glaxo Laboratories India Ltd where he was Managing Director . |
| 23 | Between 1984 and 1987 he was managing director of , a family owned business which was floated on the USM in 1985 and sold to in 1986 . |
| 24 | Prior to joining Guinness , he was managing director of Imperial Leisure and Retailing , part of Courage Plc , and he has previously been Courage 's marketing director . |
| 25 | Prior to this he was managing director of the International region of United Distillers from January 1991 . |
| 26 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 27 | A former French translator for President Kim Il Sung , he was first secretary in the Congo at the time of his defection , and was welcomed by South Korea because of his position in the North Korean hierarchy . |
| 28 | Evans was arrested in August , 1990 , when he was First secretary at the London passport centre . |
| 29 | He was first choice at number two until the 2nd World War called a halt to fully competitive soccer — and well beyond . |
| 30 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |