Example sentences of "man [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The man most famous for his role in Edward and Mrs Simpson is appearing in a programme called ’ Americans in Paris ’ . |
| 3 | Mike Abrahams , chief enforcement officer at Lautro and the man most involved in regulating tied agents , is dismayed by life companies ' attitudes . |
| 4 | The electoral process stopped abruptly with the death of the man most likely to be prime minister . |
| 5 | He was replying to a TODAY story on Saturday headlined The Man Most Likely To . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The man most responsible for the demolition of an ordinary looking Palace side is the perfect testimony of Mr Graham 's ideals . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a labour of love , ’ said Richard Nice , of Billingham , perhaps the man most responsible for the project , now in its eighth year . |
| 9 | I once disparaged this lazy stratagem to a poet I met , a man presumably skilled in the coincidences of rhyme . |
| 10 | Harold Wilson was , for a man so seasoned in the ups and downs of public life , incredibly sensitive . |
| 11 | She told me , she never saw a man so pleased by a glass of wine . |
| 12 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 13 | Maybe he was a man so obsessed with hidden things that he simply could n't see open criminality — which looked like business and politics almost as usual . |
| 14 | Moreover he was perversely drawn to a man so apt to be hated . |
| 15 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 16 | But despite a guest appearance by Jack Nicholson , and the assistance of the ingenious Simenon ( a man so uninfatuated by Prince and all his works that he fell asleep during the Sign O The Times movie ) , does Cat have the creative wherewithal to make it as a solo act ? |
| 17 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 18 | But where this liberty was not balanced by responsibility the Reformation made man so free under God that it was only a short step to his being free from God . |
| 19 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 20 | He was a Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean , a man somewhat flamboyant in dress and manner , not only a ladies ’ man but one of the most dedicated womanisers in the University ; a man who patently , almost on first sight , appeared self-centred and self-seeking . |
| 21 | There was more gun violence in the capital yesterday , a man apparently involved in drugs shot dead at Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 22 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
| 23 | The works on show are as relaxed as the setting — they speak quietly — no drama , no rhetoric — and their message is clear that The Prince of Wales , like every serious artist , paints not just what he sees but what he is … a man obviously happiest in the open air , preoccupied ( like all Englishmen ) with our landscape and our weather ( itself as misty , mid-toned and lacking in extremes as the English themselves ) . |
| 24 | A man not incapable of irony , Thorkel Fóstri , it seemed , could not necessarily detect it in somebody else . |
| 25 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 26 | The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital . |
| 27 | Sadly for Kylie though , whether or not she got the most important role she had yet auditioned for did not depend on a man already convinced of her potential . |
| 28 | But from the indirect evidence of books dedicated to him , scholars patronised by him , and texts produced in his name , a picture emerges of a man genuinely interested in learning . |
| 29 | I do not remember much of the actual golf , but what I do recall is an eager young man infectiously happy over his win and sharing the emotion with an appreciative crowd . |
| 30 | A man once famed for his intolerance , xenophobia and irrational rages has become a husk of his former self . |