Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | If he die on us , so gallant a man , I 'll never forgive myself . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 4 | Even so unsentimental a man as Sir Donald Cameron was completely in awe of the Browne legend . |
| 5 | And he commanded and requested the Christians that they should show great honour to the Moors , and respect them , and greet them when they met : and the Moors thanked the Cid greatly for the honour which the Christians did them , saying that they had never seen so good a man , nor one so honourable , nor one who had his people under such obedience . |
| 6 | Cromer dominated Egypt , not because England gave him force , or because Egypt loved us , but because he was so good a man . ’ |
| 7 | Irwin had triumphed because , as Lawrence had said of Cromer , ‘ he was so good a man ’ . |
| 8 | A surprisingly worldly comment , from so innocent a man , she had thought this . |
| 9 | They turned back to Major Braithwaite who was talking to Julia with what , in so staid a man , was approaching animation . |
| 10 | Adam and Rufus Fletcher , for instance , though both white , Caucasian and of more or less Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Norse-Norman ancestry , were very dissimilar in appearance , Adam being slight and white-skinned with a lot of bushy ( now receding ) dark hair , while Rufus was burly and fair with curiously sharp , pointed features for so fleshy a man . |
| 11 | So important a man in Henley he had become that his obituary and funeral warranted 118 inches of space in the Standard . |
| 12 | This is a bizarre lapse for so successful a man . |
| 13 | Carried by so small a man , the camera 's lens would often be no higher from the ground than a child 's eye and he could approach them on their own level . |
| 14 | So big a man is never going to be exactly nippy , but he is not slow and not without ball-sense . |
| 15 | Those tears were tears of ecstasy at contemplating the nobility , courage and great heartedness of Socrates , rather than tears of sadness for the death of so upright a man . |
| 16 | Peter Holman 's exemplary notes suggest that Jenkins composed these works in his 20s or 30s , but the quality of the music seem to belie that generally accepted claim : it is difficult to imagine such depth of repose in so young a man — though that in turn gives the modern listener a clue as to why Jenkins was such a respected and well-loved figure in his day . |
| 17 | Oddly for so fluent a man he wrote his sermons and he also prayed with his eyes open , which added to the impact of his public prayer . |
| 18 | Careful plan ? but was he so cold-blooded a man as that ? ) . |
| 19 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 20 | And er after that it was just well every man for himself I never really saw any of the guys except for the o one guy who was on the platform with me at the time . |
| 21 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 22 | ‘ Bernie has made F1 viable , but the more powerful a man becomes , the less he listens . |
| 23 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 24 | Lewis is as pleasant a man as there is in heavyweight boxing and he has every right to make as much money as he can , as quickly as he can . |
| 25 | You are as free a man as I am , we do but agree over the hire of a courier . |
| 26 | He is a far finer figure than I arm — as fine a man as you are a woman ! |
| 27 | By the end of the century some might still moan that ‘ it would shock many to suggest that a plain dissenting preacher might be as great a man as an Archbishop ’ but this was simply twaddle . |
| 28 | He undergoes a complete change of heart and character after a series of ghostly visitations in a dream and ends up ‘ as good a friend , as good a master , and as good a man , as the good old city knew ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you , ’ I said , ‘ you must not brag what you can do , because there 's allus somebody as good a man as yourself . |
| 30 | Oh ! really , how absurd the man was ! |