Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game , turned professional — Tilden , Perry , Budge , Gonzales ‘ Sedgman , Trabert , and then Rosewall , Hoad , and finally Rod Laver . |
| 2 | In contrast Ralph Shergold who took Standard Four was not only a splendid teacher but also one of the nicest men I have ever known . |
| 3 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 4 | But Guy Sterne is one of the nicest men I know . |
| 5 | He 's one of the nicest men I 've ever met in my life . |
| 6 | Of the six men banned , Chapman was probably least involved , as he was away from the club when the malpractices allegedly took place . |
| 7 | Lt. Taylour 's Blue Section attacked and the bomber was badly hit , and five of the six men aboard were wounded . |
| 8 | Mr Horn called for the resignation of the six men , warning he could be dead by the time they read the letters . |
| 9 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |
| 10 | A member of the Senior Management team , for instance , one of the faceless men , not known personally to the office girls , but whose importance was instinctively sensed from the way they looked , the way they behaved . |
| 11 | For all of the above reasons , and many more , Paul Merton is now seriously challenging as one of the funniest men in Britain . |
| 12 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 13 | ‘ That impression comes across from the way he concentrates on everything on the pitch , but underneath he 's one of the funniest men you could meet . |
| 14 | Er all this takes a lot of effort on a lot of people 's parts and we 're very fortunate today to have three of the professional men who are doing the bulk of the work present with us and their wives . |
| 15 | The huge lock Mesake Rasari , one of the fastest men on show , set the scene when he motored home from halfway . |
| 16 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 17 | When he swings into action on the water , Kerton is one of the fastest men afloat . |
| 18 | I suppose when sport is discussed horse racing has always been a part of village life , a pastime which most of the working men have indulged in . |
| 19 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 20 | He was David , David Koresh 's brother-in-law and one of the mighty men . |
| 21 | The shouting of the dark-faced men was louder , the bustle more urgent , the dismantled machinery for the most part back in place again . |
| 22 | They were plunging for the shelter of the churchyard wall as a typhoon of musket fire swept the defences , kicking dust into a mist around the ankles of the retreating men . |
| 23 | By comparison , and much more numerous , were the new-style houses of the middling men of Tudor and Stuart Sussex , the yeomen and husbandmen . |
| 24 | His description of the intifada is entitled Land of the Masked Men . |
| 25 | One of the masked men tried to seize the bridle of my horse . |
| 26 | A liquidator of the best men thrown up by the Revolution , a torturer , a racialist on a Hitlerian scale , a defeatist when war was going badly , and a mind of insatiable vanity and paranoid suspicion was exposed . |
| 27 | He must acquire some knowledge of law and seek to settle disputes between parishioners , having three or four of the ablest men in the parish to hear the cause with him . |
| 28 | MacCabe was appointed to the professorship because he was seen at Strathclyde as " one of the ablest men of his generation " , having " an outstanding record in teaching and research " . |
| 29 | Of the twelve men arrested in the original swoop in the Rathcoole district , five continued to be detained in Long Kesh . |
| 30 | The air was thick with cigarette and cigar smoke ; a number of the twelve men seated there puffed away quite happily while they talked . |