Example sentences of "of a man [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( The fact that the Chinese sign for ‘ father ’ stems from the glyph of a man and a jade adze suggests that a similar notion prevailed in that country as far back as the Shang dynasty . ) |
| 32 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 33 | Churchward was a fine figure of a man and his even temperament and dignified bearing suggested the country squire , an impression heightened by his liking for tweed suits . |
| 34 | Strictly visual language to make scientific points had been used as early as 1555 by Pierre Belon in his Oiseaux , where he put the skeleton of a man and a bird side by side to demonstrate their unity of plan , or homology . |
| 35 | All these new features are to be found in two Iberian stone heads of a different type , one of a man and one of a woman , which entered Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 36 | In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female . |
| 37 | These days nobody thinks anything of a man and a woman sharing a flat . ’ |
| 38 | There was a mud brick wall round the roof of the house , over which looked two agitated faces , those of a man and a woman . |
| 39 | He was a giant of a man and did the work of three , and when someone flagged with exhaustion he would appear like a genie by his side and with a quiet word help him over the temporary crisis . |
| 40 | ’ The Bridge ’ is the imaginary story behind a Victorian impressionist painting by Philip Steer of a man and a woman standing on a bridge . |
| 41 | Plus , you CAN take it with you … the moving story of a man and his garden |
| 42 | The BMR of a man or woman is dependent on weight , height , fitness and body composition . |
| 43 | The chief god of the philistines , Dagan ( or Dagon ) is represented with the face and hands of a man or woman and the tail of a fish . |
| 44 | The legendary fox spirits of Japanese superstition , they can either assume human form or enter the living body of a man or woman , most often appearing as beautiful women in long white gowns . |
| 45 | The shape seemed too big for the seat ; hunched , gnarled and blackened , it was still shrouded in hissing steam , but despite its swollen size the shape of a man or woman for all that . |
| 46 | It was a stone head , whether of a man or a woman it was difficult to say . |
| 47 | It 's not how many stocks and shares they 've got , it 's not what the size of their balance is , how much they 've got on deposit account , how much credit , how credit worthy they are , that is not the richness of a man or a woman . |
| 48 | No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage . |
| 49 | Hume 's moral philosophy is mainly a development , on an effectively non-theistic basis , of Hutcheson 's and Hutcheson had already advocated a kind of utilitarianism , for in identifying moral goodness with benevolence , he had seen the goodness of a man as essentially the amount of happiness he produced divided by his opportunities . |
| 50 | It seems he surprised Clare gazing lovingly at a photograph of a man whilst you were away from the table . |
| 51 | I showed all the tolerance and good humour that a woman might want of a man when we investigated the range of shopping offered by the spaceport city . |