Example sentences of "man [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same young men celebrated their success by taking a holiday in the Isle of Man later that summer . |
| 2 | Andy Norman is the Promotions Officer of British Athletics and the man mostly responsible for the extraordinary rise of the sport during the late seventies and throughout the eighties . |
| 3 | The man most famous for his role in Edward and Mrs Simpson is appearing in a programme called ’ Americans in Paris ’ . |
| 4 | Mike Abrahams , chief enforcement officer at Lautro and the man most involved in regulating tied agents , is dismayed by life companies ' attitudes . |
| 5 | SIMON MAKALLA , chief game warden of the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya , was named in court yesterday as the man most likely to have murdered Julie Ward . |
| 6 | This is partly because he has become the man most likely to win medals in the top competitions abroad — including the World Championships in Belgrade which start on Tuesday — notwithstanding his curiously fragile physique . |
| 7 | Mr Etyang said the evidence making the game reserve 's head warden , Simon Makallah , the man most likely to have murdered Miss Ward was just speculation . |
| 8 | The man most likely to cause problems for the French is Maurice Johnston , the striker who joined Rangers from Nantes during the summer . |
| 9 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 10 | The electoral process stopped abruptly with the death of the man most likely to be prime minister . |
| 11 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 12 | He would be chosen thus , and he will be chosen under the present system , as the man most likely to win . |
| 13 | The man most likely … |
| 14 | He was replying to a TODAY story on Saturday headlined The Man Most Likely To . |
| 15 | Replying to a TODAY story on Saturday headlined The Man Most Likely To , he said he was still friendly with the princess but would do nothing to embarrass her . |
| 16 | Certainly at county level Walsh has been among the most penetrative bowlers on the circuit since his debut here in 1984 , and in that period his name can be bracketed with such as Sir Richard Hadlee , Malcolm Marshall , Neil Foster , Terry Alderman , Allan Donald , and Waqar Younis as the man most likely to top the end-of-season averages . |
| 17 | Certes , the first team secretary and the youngest there , the man most likely to succeed Hurst as captain , had a rather different problem . |
| 18 | He always looked the man most likely to score . |
| 19 | The man most responsible for the demolition of an ordinary looking Palace side is the perfect testimony of Mr Graham 's ideals . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a labour of love , ’ said Richard Nice , of Billingham , perhaps the man most responsible for the project , now in its eighth year . |
| 21 | The man most concerned to limit the publicity given to the Memorie was said to be Bernard Berenson . |
| 22 | I once disparaged this lazy stratagem to a poet I met , a man presumably skilled in the coincidences of rhyme . |
| 23 | Harold Wilson was , for a man so seasoned in the ups and downs of public life , incredibly sensitive . |
| 24 | When it is suggested to him that it may be necessary and unavoidable to kill those who oppress mankind in the same way as it is necessary and unavoidable to hill a homicidal lunatic who threatens society , his reply is that no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption , and no man so perfect as to be justified in killing these whom he considers to be evil . |
| 25 | She told me , she never saw a man so pleased by a glass of wine . |
| 26 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 27 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 28 | It once belonged to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is extraordinarily large for a man so small . |
| 29 | Yet it is true that , although Foucault 's " counter-sciences " , by repeatedly demonstrating the apparently endless variety of what is humanly possible , have constantly served to enlarge the scope of " us " at the expense of " other " , they have , at the same time , ended up by making the generality man so imprecise as to be almost meaningless . |
| 30 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |