Example sentences of "[prep] a man 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A title of courtesy used in the UK in the address of a letter after a man 's family name , instead of Mr before it . |
| 2 | It is curious that he should select such a subject for his essay , drawn from a newspaper announcement of a man 's death . |
| 3 | worketh on the eyes , ears and other parts of a man 's body ; and by diversity of working produceth diversity of experience . |
| 4 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 5 | A small distinct hole is disclosed , the size of a man 's hand . |
| 6 | The word ‘ estate ’ is often used to denote the whole of a man 's proprietary rights , more especially after his death . |
| 7 | Generally speaking , we shall include under the notion of a man 's property in its widest sense all rights which are capable of being transferred to others , of being made available for payment of his debts , or of passing to his representatives on his death . |
| 8 | Jogging was more of a man 's sport . |
| 9 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 10 | Nobody would be capable of identifying the paragraph as words which were the equivalent of a man 's post-coital sadness or silence . |
| 11 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 12 | A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought . |
| 13 | And enough elderly people did survive as chronically sick , physically maimed , or mentally impaired , to sustain the most negative seventeenth-century images of old age as ‘ a perpetual sickness ’ , ‘ a disease ’ , a time of impotence in the widest sense , ‘ the dregs … of a man 's life ’ . |
| 14 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 15 | The idea of the ballet is to sketch a few facets of a man 's life as seen by him ( hence Unisoculous — one eye ) . |
| 16 | Over the period of a man 's life , small changes are in fact detectable — the magnetic poles wander very slowly around the geographic poles , so the direction of ‘ magnetic ’ north varies slightly from year to year . |
| 17 | One of the greatest gifts known to man is the one he can give himself of a joyous heart and it can come from no one else , for it comes from the springs of a man 's own spirit . |
| 18 | Mirth is never the most important part of a man 's life and can indeed be irksome in times of depression or trouble . |
| 19 | What Boullée showed above all was a new dimension of the vision of a man 's mind . |
| 20 | SINCE life is the entire period until we die , a philosophy of life must apply to every part of a man 's life , not just the productive part . |
| 21 | Now the cubit ( traditionally the length of a man 's forearm from the elbow to clenched fist ) is the principal unit of linear measurement in the Bible , and was used too in Egypt and Mesopotamia . |
| 22 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 23 | A metal hook at the top end of the handle is used for recovering line from a hole and is also useful for drawing rabbits out of a hole at a distance beyond the length of a man 's arm . |
| 24 | And Martyn Lloyd-Jones ' view was that ‘ prayer is the ultimate test of a man 's true spiritual condition . |
| 25 | Trapped under one of the huge concrete blocks was part of a man 's leg , severed at the knee . |
| 26 | Prayer for Gandhi is the essence of religion and the core of a man 's life . |
| 27 | It is possible that the silent witness of a man 's life was more in accordance with the tradition of meditation and contemplation that Gandhi was accustomed to than the more vocal and prophetic approach of the Christian tradition . |
| 28 | BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT : The art of phalloplasty , in which fat is removed from different parts of a man 's body and grafted on to his penis . |
| 29 | In relationships they can go into the challenging and testing of a man 's intention , and into the releasing of inhibitions in the sexual act . |
| 30 | What proof can there be of a man 's feelings ? |