Example sentences of "not a man [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 2 | For it was not a man at all who pulled back the door , but a well-built lady somewhere in her early fifties . |
| 3 | There were punks and Sikhs and he went to work with a postman who was not a man at all , but a woman . |
| 4 | Not a man on board could guess how he had killed the others . |
| 5 | You need gentleness tonight , not a man on the knife-edge of control . ’ |
| 6 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 7 | But even his critics admit that he is not a man of great ambition . |
| 8 | They regard the fusion as a sound investment and , although Unionist stock has appreciated greatly since the new issue , there is not a man of us who has the slightest intention of selling out . |
| 9 | Anyway , I 'm not a man of the disciplines . |
| 10 | Andrew was not a man of many pupils . |
| 11 | The Archdeacon was not a man of agile mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Not a man of common sense ? ’ |
| 13 | He is not a man of esoteric tastes : his seem to accord with those one would associate with a long-distance lorry driver : lots of straight girlie magazines , only the more common perversions , e.g. , mild S & m . |
| 14 | I 'm not a man of all that much letters , though I like to think that I was fully capable of arranging Shakespeare for Ben 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 15 | Norman McBeath is , as his name suggests a purebred Scot and not a man of Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | Carden Park is proof that 49 year-old Broome is not a man of compromises , though it is not his greatest project . |
| 17 | He was not a man to be taunted into action ; his function was to eject troublemakers . |
| 18 | Rufus soon regretted his indiscretion — Admiral Greave , not a man to be trifled with , cast him adrift on the planet Killey to collect rare and valuable crystals found on the surface . |
| 19 | Georgi Kirov was not a man to be overtly optimistic . |
| 20 | Mr Stenholm , not a man to be underestimated , presented his proposals for new cuts on May 18th . |
| 21 | Buxton was not a man to be deterred by the shipowners ' protestations that the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not only unrepresentative of seamen but would fail " to command support in the event of a decision of a conciliation board which did not secure the immediate approval of the persons affected " . |
| 22 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 23 | Tamburlaine is not a man to be dealt with lightly , because if he says something , he means it . |
| 24 | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , not a man to be seduced by charm alone , thought rather little of " Diffugere nives " , coupling it with another poem , the twelfth ode of the fourth book , and dismissing the pair alike as Frühlingslieder ( " unremarkable spring songs " ) , which Goethe , " " , ( " only remind us , like Goethe of old , " " and if time goes swiftly by , the seasons come again " " ) ( 1913 ) . |
| 25 | Chuck us a can , a man 's not a man without Scotsport . |
| 26 | Jamie was not a man for ‘ safe answers ’ . |
| 27 | The Reverend George Whitefield was not a man for jokes . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not a man for fancy living and fancy women . |
| 29 | As the bath filled she inspected the sparse supply of male toiletries , interested to find Penry Vaughan was not a man for sexy French fragrances . |
| 30 | David 's not a man for leaving work behind him at the end of the day . |