Example sentences of "man [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At nineteen Shallot was virtuous , a prosperous man soon to be a merchant prince who would show both Master Benjamin and the great Wolsey that he could rise without their help . |
| 2 | Doubts over murder conviction that refuse to go away A man soon to be freed from jail still protests his innocence , writes Denny Macgee |
| 3 | Richard was the youngest man ever to be made Head of so large a school . |
| 4 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy was , at 43 , the youngest man ever to be elected President of the USA . |
| 5 | He had accepted membership of the royal commission on contagious diseases — the first working man ever to be appointed in this capacity — but this led to fierce opposition from within the union 's executive , and Applegarth resigned in April 1871 . |
| 6 | Grubby was and is the most unlikely man ever to be a hit in the world of advertising . |
| 7 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 8 | Freud replies to his own argument , that there is no need for man always to be ruled by emotions . |
| 9 | He seldom had to meet a man twice to be certain of his ground with him . |