Example sentences of "not the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , from some consciousness of immaculate rectitude , we follow Allen Ginsberg in giving Pound a kiss of forgiveness — and it is in effect what David Heymann does towards the end of The Last Rower — it is poetry that we are presuming to forgive , not the man but ‘ the-man-as-poet ’ . |
| 2 | If Mr Meacher is not the man to bang the heads of union leaders together , then surely Mr Kinnock is . |
| 3 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 4 | It was generally recognised that Clasper was not the man to dismantle restrictive practices , nor to co-operate with management to make the necessary improvements in labour relations if they were to keep their jobs in future . |
| 5 | But whereas he had come to the conclusion by the beginning of 1936 that Mussolini was probably not the man to play this game , he remained cautiously optimistic that Hitler might be . |
| 6 | ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect . |
| 7 | He 's not the man to rescue you — ‘ |
| 8 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 9 | He was not the man to sit back and boast . |
| 10 | Hardy , in contrast , with his traditional ‘ sponge and bucket ’ approach to treatment , was not the man for Chapman , who wanted an up-to-date training and medical department that could deal with injuries quickly and effectively . |
| 11 | ‘ No , not the man we 're looking for . |
| 12 | He was certainly not the man for the various blue-blood , hard-man , gangsterish marine and commando outfits that he used every social connection to wangle his way into . |
| 13 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 14 | He was not the man for the task , once Will Douglas was lost to him . ’ |
| 15 | Cowley contemplated him for a moment , trying to decide whether or not the man was lying , then asked , ‘ What would you like us to do with her , once we 've caught her ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why does a woman work 10 years to change a man 's habits and then complain that he 's not the man she married ? ’ |
| 17 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 18 | We had Nick Kent on The Joystrings , Julie Burchill on the road with Sounds Of Blackness , and Charles Shaar Murray considering whether or not The Man represents a returning Jesus in Lou Reed 's ‘ I 'm Waiting For My Man ’ . |
| 19 | This was the Old Red I had heard about , and not the man I had met in the subway . |
| 20 | A song like ‘ There Are Days ’ is a four-minute summary of the highlights of ‘ Blind Man 's Zoo ’ — as indeed are ‘ If You Intend ’ , ‘ I 'm Not The Man ’ , ‘ How You 've Grown ’ and most of the rest of this record . |
| 21 | While Hoving 's career at the Met could make for a juicy and fascinating story , Making the Mummies Dance proves that he is not the man to tell it . |
| 22 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 23 | Melchiori in one place actually describes ‘ the I ’ as being ‘ the poet who voices his own feelings ’ , and says that the absence of the I form in some sonnets ‘ is an impediment to the dialogue , to the theatrical quality ’ , which he describes in disappointingly literal terms : ‘ Normally in Shakespeare 's Sonnets we find a truly dramatic dialogue between two characters : the persona of the poet himself ( the speaking I , not the man William Shakespeare ) ’ — a welcome disclaimer ! — ‘ and a ‘ you ’ , the actor playing the role of a lovely boy , a worthy or unworthy mistress , possibly a rival poet' . |
| 24 | There was but one saviour for Europe , in Joyce 's view , and he made no secret that Mosley was not the man . |
| 25 | Escoffier was not the man to let go easily . |
| 26 | Colonel Moore was not the man to betray what he interpreted as his duty and his trust . |
| 27 | ‘ He is certainly not the man to tolerate thieves and bandits in his lands , ’ said the abbot . |
| 28 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 29 | A man passed , but not the man she had seen . |
| 30 | He was not the man who had destroyed his sister 's life . |