Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] man [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 2 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 3 | SIR , — Your May 22 editorial contains some remarkable assertions , especially about man 's evolutionary status as champion predator . |
| 4 | As the girl smiled and blushed at herself , she seemed to be dreaming , dreaming perhaps of men 's hearts won and lost . |
| 5 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 6 | The realisation that he was a sinner not only in men 's eyes but in God 's led to his conversion in February 1779 . |
| 7 | This new freedom to travel safely far and wide had a profound effect not only on men 's lives but also on their thoughts and beliefs ; these men who were being uprooted provided ‘ the background to the anxious thoughts of the religious leaders of the late second century ’ . |
| 8 | He kept it private ; I liked to imagine for showing his cronies stag movies , but probably just for men 's talk . |
| 9 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 10 | This is important : an aircraft 's personality is always rooted somewhere in men 's minds . |
| 11 | One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases . |
| 12 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 13 | This is Daphne Sheldrick 's ‘ home ’ for young orphaned elephants in Kenya — the triumph of a remarkable woman who has dedicated 40 years to saving wild animals , orphaned mainly by man 's greed or bloodlust . |
| 14 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 15 | The same point applies to Tillich 's definition of religion as Ultimate Concern which refers not simply to man 's subjective concern , that is , the expression of his Ultimate Concern , but what he is ultimately concerned about , or that which is the source of his concern . |
| 16 | What other evidence is there of man 's use of the landscape in these early periods , and what can it tell us ? |
| 17 | At that time , strikes were regarded by most members of the middle class as conspiracies against the established order , as sometimes they may have been ; but this particular stoppage , concerning itself chiefly with man 's natural being and constitution , seemed to Eliot to be quite different from the normal down-tools affair . |
| 18 | The most important family — at least from man 's point of view since he is descended from it — were the Omomyidae . |
| 19 | Theologically trained readers of his time would recognise a background of scholarly debate on whether it is primarily through man 's intellect or capacity to love , that the soul engages with God , and they would be able to acknowledge Hilton 's synthesis of understanding and desire . |