Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it .
2 It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own .
3 The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings .
4 Mr Morrison is not a man who shirks from controversial issues .
5 For the field man who deals with real problems , paper work is incidental , after the fact .
6 We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences .
7 Pellerin , the artist among Frédéric 's companions , a man who specialises in complete theories and incomplete sketches , produces one of his rare finished paintings .
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