Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything else you can tell us about Herr Hamnett , or the other man ? ’ |
| 2 | I have found a power I can rely on , not the white man or the black man , but some power greater than white and greater than black . |
| 3 | While the vast majority of those in work claim the relevant personal allowances — such as the single person 's or the married man 's tax allowance — even these are of most value to high earners who are able to set the allowances against the top rate of tax for which they are liable . |
| 4 | She saw the boy who wrote poetry , and she loved him , but as the boy , not as the youth or the budding man . |
| 5 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 6 | Her mother and father , or the young man who had made her his easy prey ? |
| 7 | The motivations of the middle-aged housewife or the young man with good career prospects who joined Militant , remained unexplored . |
| 8 | At other times the man in charge of the relevant section or the local man might be a better choice . |
| 9 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 10 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 11 | They like to be seen as the hard man or the macho man and not to be ridiculed , ’ he said last night . |
| 12 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 13 | Admiring Durkheim 's stress on the need for community , Eliot wrote that , ‘ For the savage or the civilized man , a solely individual existence would be intolerable : he feels the need of recreating and sustaining his strength by periodic refuge in another consciousness which is supra-individual . |
| 14 | Among these men where learning and speculation have become a leisured pursuit — where the amateur-cum-Renaissance man is king and the dilettante is the hero — a new world-view is being forged . |
| 15 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 16 | Where the burrows are located in a bank it is necessary for the gun to stand on the all-round vision requires one gun on each side of it — and each man needs to know exactly where the other man is standing . |
| 17 | He knows where nothing can go wrong , where the young man is worrying ‘ My God , if something happens which I have not calculated for … ’ . |
| 18 | Crime and Punishment 's Petersburg does not produce the murderer with the inevitability shown by the ‘ abstract ’ city in the novel immediately preceding it , where the underground man ‘ was bound to appear in our midst ’ . |
| 19 | The job was a cage where the wild man in me fretted and chafed . |
| 20 | Passing behind Uncle Philip 's broad back with a leaning tower of dishes in his hand , he performed a swift , small , derisive dance where the old man could not see . |
| 21 | And my reaction to this fear , my way of combating it , was to escape into a world of no fear , a world where there were complete men , good-looking , strong , active , a world of erotic fearlessness where the whole man had free rein , the whole man whom I was convinced I would not or could not become . |
| 22 | Fellow students at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , where the dead man was studying , and who attended a memorial service in his honour , have also contributed to the Murray Pugh memorial fund . |
| 23 | There are places here where no white man 's ever been . |
| 24 | This is clearly not the case in [ 8 ] , where a tall man has an attributive function . |
| 25 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 26 | SPECIAL interpreters assisted yesterday at the opening of a unique trial at Cardiff Crown Court , where a deaf man was accused of murdering a deaf woman who had speech difficulties . |
| 27 | Their fate is being decided in the Hague , where a great man , a former Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Government , Mr. Van der Stoel , published his interim report as special rapporteur on Iraq and human rights on 17 November . |
| 28 | We even excuse ourselves a smile at the Catholic priest who tells of how he , being an incompetent tennis player , accidentally mishit a shot that flew into an adjacent court where a black man happened to be playing . |
| 29 | For Mrs Castle , however , and for many of her colleagues , the fact that a rich man might save his life , where a poor man could not , was an unacceptable political proposition . |
| 30 | For a few moments no one spoke and then there was some activity in one corner where a young man was trying to persuade the girl beside him to stand up . |