Example sentences of "[conj] as 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 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 5 | Vincent declared that as a man of passion he was prepared to try anything . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He will also want to prove just how much he has matured both as a player and as a man . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 1992 , 28 , 55 ) gives a very good picture of him , both as a chemist and as a man with a broad range of interests . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But , Ayesha , I am no god ; I am a man , and as a man I seek the woman whom I love . |
| 15 | In the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve — a portrayal which leans heavily on conventional attitudes of hostility towards the lords ' men , the peasant officials amongst the peasants , in medieval English satire — the Reeve is presented as a man who provokes suspicion and fear : and as a man who , by being identifiable as one of a type rather than an individual , attracts the prejudices associated with that type . |
| 16 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |
| 17 | Not just as squeaky clean , boring Ewan Famber but as a man . |
| 18 | ‘ A good , strong ruler , ’ the Prior commented , ‘ but as a man , well … ’ his voice trailed off , leaving the silence to be broken only by the sound of his sandalled feet pattering against the slabstones . |
| 19 | His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands . |
| 20 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 21 | Both his Chancellors — the two most important figures in the Conservative Party — thought of him , not as a man of promise , but as a man who deserved some reward by virtue of his service . |
| 22 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |