Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Or as a man ? ’ |
| 3 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 4 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 5 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 6 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 7 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 8 | There could be no doubt that for a man on foot this was the quickest way from Riddle 's house to Jordan 's farm . |
| 9 | She continued , ‘ I would have thought that for a man in your position , required to make countless decisions every day , such a weakness would prove to be a considerable handicap . ’ |
| 10 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 11 | Vincent declared that as a man of passion he was prepared to try anything . |
| 12 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 13 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 14 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 16 | Although for a man a stab wage was invariably better than piece-rates , it could sometimes be the other way round for women . |
| 17 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 18 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 19 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 20 | For Benedict had not spoken rationally , nor like a man whose hopes had been disappointed . |
| 21 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 22 | I 've often wanted to say that to a man , go on , take all of me , why not ? |
| 23 | Your council occasionally suffers comments about the age of some of its members but the fact remains that to a man or woman your council members are current sailors or actively involved in the sport and this must be good for sport . |
| 24 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
| 25 | He will also want to prove just how much he has matured both as a player and as a man . |
| 26 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 27 | 1992 , 28 , 55 ) gives a very good picture of him , both as a chemist and as a man with a broad range of interests . |
| 28 | When they had finished , Haydn turned to Leopold and said : ‘ As God is my witness , and as a man of honour , I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me , either personally or by reputation . |
| 29 | If you continue deferment , which as a woman you can do until 65 and as a man until 70 , you will earn what are known as ‘ increments ’ and your pension will be bigger when you receive it . |
| 30 | ‘ But , Ayesha , I am no god ; I am a man , and as a man I seek the woman whom I love . |