Example sentences of "man [unc] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud suggested that work was man 's link to reality because it was through work that the individual became linked to the human community . |
| 2 | Man 's humanity to horse |
| 3 | BEST MAN 'S TOAST TO BRIDE AND GROOM |
| 4 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 5 | Or rather , showed that a woman 's and a man 's attitude to sex could henceforward be one and the same . |
| 6 | Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society . |
| 7 | Almost unbelievably , a passer-by overhead the man 's approach to Robert outside the school , became suspicious , and telephoned the local police with the number of the car . |
| 8 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 9 | The seven virtues put together the three theological virtues which arise from man 's relationship to God as his creator , and are the condition of all Christian action — faith , hope and charity — with the four classical virtues which relate to man as a social being : justice towards others , prudence in distinguishing good from evil in the world , fortitude in all circumstances , " whethir so betides " and temperance to achieve a balanced life-style to " lyff skillwisely [ with discretion ] als the lawe techis " . |
| 10 | In terms of man 's relationship to nature the key idea here is that of dominion . |
| 11 | SOMEONE was only saying the other day in the Red Lion that the demon drink is a killer and has reduced many a man 's life to misery . |
| 12 | The abbey was plundered and pillaged , its treasures looted , its roofs pulled off , and what was once man 's homage to God became a nesting place for foxes , ravens and kites . |
| 13 | The latter is the respectable man 's introduction to idolatry . |
| 14 | A man 's advice to men at midlife is neither to try dressing like younger men nor to neglect the way they dress . |
| 15 | He can not forgive man 's cruelty to man ! ’ |
| 16 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 17 | Wexford , who had been lyrical , felt positively pained by this evidence of man 's indifference to nature 's glories . |
| 18 | We might , while comparing de Man 's absolutism to Jakobson 's relational categories , add that there is no sign of a distinction at all in de Man 's work between the poetic and the metalingual function . |
| 19 | His wife brought him , however , two books , The Plain Man 's Pathway to Heaven by Arthur Dent and The Practice of Piety by Lewis Baxley . |
| 20 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 21 | Other choreographers find disturbing themes of madness , the tragedy of war and man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 22 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 23 | ‘ Man 's inhumanity to Man ’ |
| 24 | Such influences seriously affect all movement and behaviour , most noticeably in the works listed against ‘ Man 's inhumanity to Man ’ , where the ‘ little man ’ is manipulated by others . |
| 25 | There is a great deal of man 's inhumanity to man as evinced in the use of torture on political prisoners or the application of apartheid to other races . |
| 26 | On 8 December , the former prime minister , Stanley Baldwin ( Lord Baldwin ) , had made a successful radio appeal on behalf of refugees , ‘ the victims … of an explosion of man 's inhumanity to man ’ . |
| 27 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 28 | The real cause of war and strife is not religion , but man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 29 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 30 | Just man 's inhumanity to man , and the ignorance and the cruelty and the lack of compassion that people were showing — and still are . |