Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] man ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heartened by Mr Raymond , we sent a press release to the newsdesks headlined ‘ New Group Formed For Men 's Rights ’ . |
| 2 | It is the care of cattle which is regarded as man 's work . |
| 3 | The corruptions in the West have come from man 's failure to apply those beliefs correctly . |
| 4 | And woman 's vulva dropped over man 's neck and tightened . |
| 5 | Your remarks re childbirth are very pertinent as the aforementioned daughter gave birth to a second little girl on Saturday … so her husband , like mine , will be surrounded by a ‘ monstrous regiment of women ’ as your wife is surrounded by men 's shirts ! |
| 6 | ‘ There 's plenty seen with men 's own eyes that 's never been heard of in heaven , ’ said Davide . |
| 7 | Havel 's later prison letters are intense meditations on the alienation from Being revealed in man 's destructive , monkey-clever exploitation of the natural world and his fellow men . |
| 8 | In Slow Motion , that clear-sighted optimism is brought to bear on the advances made in men 's individual attitudes and behaviour , as well as state regulation and definitions of gender positions and possibilities . |
| 9 | Experience of these techniques has recently prompted Oldfield ( 1983b ) to propose a steady-state model of ecosystem change related to man 's impact on environment as an additional alternative to more familiar successional and cyclic models , and this is more appropriately considered in relation to other time-bound developments ( chapter 8 , p. 182 ) . |
| 10 | It is clearly related to man 's activities inland in draining the wetlands , cutting peat and altering the courses of the rivers Brue , Axe and Parrett . |
| 11 | The media , for example , are very loath to consider that sex crime may be related to men 's and women 's position in society . |
| 12 | But with those grown to man 's estate , I think he fails ; he failed with me , or to put it more correctly , I failed with him . |
| 13 | It is easier to judge the impression which the Black Death made on men 's minds , for this is reflected in the chroniclers ' writings , than to measure the scale of its ravages . |
| 14 | One of the most handsome and unusual trees growing in the Dell at Bodnant in Gwynedd is the umbrella pine ( Sciadopitys verticillata ) , a native of Japan where it is now rare and increasingly threatened by man 's activities , principally logging . |
| 15 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 16 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 17 | There were , as well , jumble sales , and stories are told of men 's silk hats mysteriously and miraculously transformed into stylish ladies ' bonnets , and of feather mattresses disintegrating , to the great discomfort of those transporting them . |
| 18 | It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . |
| 19 | The degenerating planetary ecosystem becomes reflected in man 's health . |
| 20 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 21 | Given women 's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men 's , a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination . |
| 22 | Not the state they 're in ( although I suspect that would make an interesting piece in itself ) but about how few there are in public places compared with men 's , and certainly compared with the actual need for them . |
| 23 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 24 | Or maybe , just maybe , what is called a woman 's intuition is really based on man 's transparency . |
| 25 | It shows that domestic violence , sexual harassment , rape , incest and sexual assault are commonplace manifestations of a dynamic based on men 's power and women 's subordination . |
| 26 | As a male student once pointed out to me in a moment of inspiration , it does n't make sense to say both that women 's talk is trivial and that it is ‘ deep ’ compared to men 's . |
| 27 | For my part I am not condemning , I am illustrating the fact that the Christian symbiosis between nature and humankind , expressed so well in the Bible , has from time to time been replaced by man 's domination of nature with disastrous consequences for both . |
| 28 | Secondly , many of the writers who established sociology took the notion of evolution from Darwinian biology , and tried to see the part played by man 's societies and cultures in the light of this . |
| 29 | Let me be desolate and hidden from men 's eyes … ’ |
| 30 | At the other end of the human time-scale , the idea that life could be , and was being , prolonged through man 's skill and foresight had taken a powerful hold . |