Example sentences of "[verb] man [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Kipling characteristics would surely have immediately attracted man 's attention , and he would soon have thought up other ways of increasing the frequency of such useful animals . |
| 2 | Even although Christ redeems man 's crime against God , the eating of the apple , his sacrifice is not highlighted by Milton nearly as much as Satan 's heroic undertaking of the perilous journey through Chaos to Earth . |
| 3 | It was a period of remarkable intellectual illumination ; a time when a new idealism and optimism transformed man 's understanding of himself , his society and the universe . |
| 4 | By John Roman Baker , comprising Crying Celibate Tears , The Ice Pick and Freedom to Party , these award-winning plays explore man 's relation to man in a time of crisis , where the war against the HIV virus is at is fiercest . |
| 5 | Rolle is emphatic that " ryghtwysnes " is not in the discipline itself , but it is the fruit of it , a state of inner freedom untouched by the constraints of outward circumstances : He recognises that the will to effect such inner effort has to be awakened — drawn — that it is the response to goodness in men and in Christ , and to the joy of heaven , which starts to work man 's salvation . |
| 6 | As Cookson has noted , in this sense Christianity fitted man 's propensities and the revelation afforded by the Bible complemented man 's reason and his progressive moral inclinations . |
| 7 | She characteristically underplays her education , intellect , and talent as a ‘ weaker Woman ’ , but her religious rationalization of women 's intellectual and social position in relation to men has a rather bitter tone : ‘ Eve 's Theft serv 'd but to dignify Man 's Soul , /Her Sex denied the Knowledge which she stole . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Only a relatively small part of this literature has stressed man 's role as a geomorphic agent , exerting a notable effect on the earth 's crust . |
| 9 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 10 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 11 | Between the wars the idea of modern architecture was a heroic adventure which could actually improve man 's condition . |
| 12 | ‘ Only if you promise not to talk Man 's Talk when I 'm in the kitchen making gagging noises so that you think I 've got an Espresso machine , ’ said Sorrel , eyeing him suspiciously . |
| 13 | He sent his own Son in human flesh , identical with us except for sin , and he condemned man 's sinfulness in Christ 's person , hanging upon the cross , as a sin-offering for us . |
| 14 | Turning to what she called ‘ the heart of the matter ’ , the Prime Minister said : ‘ Remove man 's freedom and you dwarf the individual , you devalue his conscience and you demoralise him . ’ |
| 15 | Within , tied together with a red ribbon , were about three dozen etched and painted wooden sticks of varying length , the longest being the size of a grown man 's finger , the shortest the size of a child 's . |
| 16 | Perhaps the greatest problem with hypnotism concerns man 's ignorance . |
| 17 | And you 've also got man 's desire to be sure of achieving success . |
| 18 | There is nothing in between to impede man 's absorption of this natural beauty — no smog , no skyscrapers , no big city pressures to cloud the mind . |
| 19 | He was now a mere ten feet above the urinating man 's head . |
| 20 | Freud also considered the view of communists , that it is the institution of private property which has corrupted man 's nature , but that man is basically co-operative and good : people could be naturally well-disposed towards their neighbours if only private property was abolished . |
| 21 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 22 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 23 | So many will take advice and consult and spend themselves in getting man 's opinion without hearing God . |
| 24 | Religion reflects man 's desire to be the God he imagines . |
| 25 | The NEA continued to make the headlines with equally controversial grants , including a panel-proposed award , later rejected by Frohnmayer , to performance-artist Karen Finley , who in one of her acts smears her scantily-clad body with chocolate to symbolise man 's inhumanity to woman . |
| 26 | Much in the Bible exists to expose man 's tendency to make religion suit his own pleasure , or ( as might be said ) match what he finds " helpful " . |
| 27 | Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ? |
| 28 | But in Britain we equate acknowledging man 's need for instant sex with approving of it , and rather than have that levelled at us , we reject the idea of licensed brothels . |
| 29 | There may indeed be something in the Professore 's argument that the major fault of Marxism was to over-estimate man 's capacity for altruism , for purity , for in tellectual-philosophic sustenance . |
| 30 | He believed that the sexuality of man , unlike any other animal , developed in two waves and this could explain man 's susceptibility to neuroses . |