Example sentences of "man [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 3 | Howling jackals and hyenas disturbed their nights , and kites swooped on to the plate of any man foolish enough to leave his food uncovered . |
| 4 | Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ? |
| 5 | Yet with a frail woman 's tenderness that could surely be touched by the man clever enough to find the way . |
| 6 | Sir Arthur Fairbairn was a man great enough to shoulder these responsibilities gracefully , tirelessly and successfully , leaving behind him some concrete examples of generosity and philanthropy as well as the memory of a genial heart and a simple soul doing good in an aristocratic manner . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , he was a man prudent enough to realise that he could not antagonise the entire civil service . |
| 8 | The world knows Danny Baker as Dunny Bayker , old , unfashionable rent-a-gob Cockney git on radio and television , current holder of the Radio Personality Of The Year award and the man daft enough to present The Game , a football series composed entirely of contests between pub sides on East London 's Hackney Marshes . |
| 9 | ‘ I know no man big enough to fill it . ’ |
| 10 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |