Example sentences of "[be] that a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 2 | It can not then be that a man was present on earth before a woman , and the woman formed from him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |
| 5 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 6 | What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely . |
| 7 | Put in another way the proposal is that a man should seek to know and fully understand the criteria which determine his thoughts and actions . |
| 8 | All it tells us is that a man walked through the wood and threw a white stick down . |
| 9 | The difficulty was that a man of this calibre would almost certainly have to be prepared to take a substantial drop in salary . |
| 10 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 11 | Rain never knew how it was that a man who spoke no word of a foreign language could master the intricacies of ordering a favourite type of beer in any country on earth . |
| 12 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |