Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] man ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said no more , ’ repeated Mrs Bumble calmly , showing ( unlike Mr Bumble ) no fear of the strange man 's violence . |
| 2 | The working part of the working man 's life seems to last ‘ for ever ’ . |
| 3 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 4 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 5 | The last of the poor man 's gold rushes was that directed in 1896 to the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers , Alaska . |
| 6 | No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man 's need , or more capable of vicarious imagination . |
| 7 | We are in touch with you because your name cropped up in reports concerning the disappearance of the murdered man 's wife . |
| 8 | By rejecting violence , King hoped that he could convince white people of the justice of the black man 's cause . |
| 9 | Professor X and his father Sonny Carson , founders of the Black Men 's Movement Against Crack , have led Blackwatch through a series of political actions such as registration drives to encourage the ghetto to vote , and visits to schools and youth groups to discuss surveying ‘ the white kryptonite ’ — crack . |
| 10 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 11 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 12 | ( Thucydides never saw Pericles at his demagogic debut , or he might have felt less dismay at the look of the great man 's successors : ii.65 . ) |
| 13 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 14 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 15 | The poor man at the gate , as in Harewood village , might inhabit a version of the rich man 's house ( Fig. 23c ) . |
| 16 | It was the driver of the bearded man 's taxi . |
| 17 | The most telling symbol of the young man 's alienation , which Nichols lightens and makes funny , is Benjamin standing awkwardly in the rubber underwater suit his father has bought him . |
| 18 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 19 | She fell back hard against the wall and shut her eyes , her head full of the young man 's odour . |
| 20 | When Minton learnt that one of the young man 's interests had not yet been fulfilled , he arranged matters so that after one Hampstead Arts Ball Hunt lost his virginity . |
| 21 | In its Final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has recommended that there should be a full scale extension of the young man 's defence to cover men of all ages . |
| 22 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 23 | But that had been only the start : a test of the young man 's potential . |
| 24 | One of the young man 's eyes had been gouged out and he had been castrated . |
| 25 | Sadie let go of the young man 's lapels , smiled grimly , and limped across the floor to Dierdrie , waiting by the fan-shaped mirror . |
| 26 | While she phoned the switchboard and requested that they page the cardiographer , Michael Barrington the orthopaedic SR arrived and glanced at the shattered stubs of the young man 's femurs . |
| 27 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 28 | The soft sound of the other man 's laughter followed him as he stepped into the foyer . |
| 29 | The first thing he wanted was to see a copy of the other man 's book . |
| 30 | He was good at sports , and he could handle a boat better than any of the other men 's fathers . |