Example sentences of "[verb] be the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each stage of the story , Britain has been the odd man out . |
| 2 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 3 | What the cameras did not show were the anonymous men mingling with the crowd , the sophisticated electronic surveillance devices , the hidden cameras monitoring the crowd , the concealed marksmen at vantage points above their heads . |
| 4 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 5 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 6 | P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier . |
| 7 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 8 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 9 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 10 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 11 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
| 12 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 13 | It was widely believed the committee wanted him , but insiders pointed out he may have been the wrong man for the job . |
| 14 | His son , Roger , may have been the richest man in Myddle upon his death in 1572 , and his grandson , William , was responsible for building the hall . |
| 15 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 16 | He realised that the ‘ co-operators ’ were often only men taking advantage of the system to get what they wanted ; and that the men who refused to co-operate were the better men . |
| 17 | ( Critics assume that the other man involved is the same man to whom Sonnets 1–126 have been addressed ; and some also assume that the three people involved in this series ( 133 , 134 , 135 , 143 , 144 ) are the same three involved in the earlier series ( 41 , 42 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the men involved was the same man who asked Anthony to contact MI5 in London when he was on holiday in Mallorca earlier this summer . ’ |
| 19 | So fascinated , intrigued and frightened were the two men by this unusual experience , that they listened without uttering a word . |
| 20 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 21 | Reputed to have been the first man to fly under a bridge , Thaw had the face , physique and drinking habits of a Hemingway ; after being wounded , his arm froze — to the rough mirth of the squadron — permanently in the crooked position . |
| 22 | As they went their separate ways , critics gave Martin , who had been the straight man of the team , little chance of finding the kind of success they predicted for Lewis . |
| 23 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 24 | Billy had been the first man to call her Annie and she felt strangely pleased . |
| 25 | The marriage which he contemplated for Matilda was with one of the most powerful of the new barons of the Conqueror , Count Alan Rufus , lord of Richmond , who for twenty-five years had been the greatest man in the north of England and one of the most constant witnesses of English royal charters : a central character , therefore , in the government of England , but a potential menace in the semi-conquered North . |
| 26 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 27 | Torry Gillick , in 1938 against Hungary , had been the last man to score for his country on Rangers ' pitch . |
| 28 | The country had been the sick man of Europe for too long , and Europe suspected hypochondria . |
| 29 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 30 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |