Example sentences of "[conj] a man [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no easier for evidence to be obtained where a man is cohabiting with a woman , yet rape is a crime in these circumstances . |
| 2 | You can sometimes get a situation that occurs where a man is married to a woman who is in fact his grandmother , this can happen . |
| 3 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 4 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 5 | Bragg went over to the counter , where a man was pouring cups of strong tea . |
| 6 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 7 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 8 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 9 | In any case the flunkey , y'pripio , was moving again , leading us to the largest of the cloud-soft couches , where a man was reclining . |
| 10 | The drama began when police were called to a pub car park in Blaydon , Gateshead , where a man was reported sniffing glue in a car . |
| 11 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 12 | He often tells me his motto : ‘ It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful . ’ |
| 13 | You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class . |
| 14 | ‘ We … know ’ , says Paul , ‘ that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ … because by works of the law shall no one be justified ’ ( Galatians 2.16 ) . |
| 15 | The amazing Dr Dichter made one of his most celebrated discoveries for the automobile industry : that a man is seduced into the showrooms by a ‘ mistress ’ ( a convertible ) but comes out having settled for a ‘ wife ’ ( a saloon or sedan ) . |
| 16 | The principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty has recently been subverted , though few have noticed . |
| 17 | Does that mean that a man is a better machine for running than a quail , or a chipmunk or mouse ? |
| 18 | The old zeks say that a man is weakest when he comes to the camps for the first time , when the desire for life is first squeezed from him . |
| 19 | This may be true of the common-or-garden use of the word idea , but when a philosopher like John Locke says that a man is not speaking intelligibly unless his words ‘ excite the same ideas in the hearer which he makes them stand for in speaking ‘ i it is not just a way of talking . |
| 20 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 21 | In this case the judge held that a man is not guilty of rape if he has sexual intercourse with a woman who does not consent to it if he believes she does consent , whether his belief is based on reasonable grounds or not . |
| 22 | By ‘ empathy ’ one knows , for instance , that a man swinging an axe is cutting wood or that a man is aiming a rifle . |
| 23 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 24 | It is now generally acknowledged that a man is usually at the peak of sexual potency and performance around the early twenties ; thereafter a slow decline sets in . |
| 25 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 26 | Believing that a man is about to set off a bomb wo n't make our soldier do anything , unless he also wants something : in this case , to prevent an explosion . |
| 27 | The literal meaning seems to be that a man is so full of the Holy Spirit that he carries conviction when he speaks about Christ . |
| 28 | Certainly it is well established that a man is not guilty of rape of a woman who is too drunk to consent even where it is he who has coaxed her to drink . |
| 29 | No one denies that a man is entitled to leave a woman or to expostulate with her . |
| 30 | ‘ Thames Valley police have confirmed that a man is helping with inquiries into the murder of Dr Hugh Puddephat , the English lecturer whose body was identified in Paris earlier this week , ’ the newsreader reported . |