Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 2 | The average man 's ejaculate contains an estimated 200,000,000 sperm , although this represents just two per cent of the total ejaculate ; the other ninety-eight per cent consists of the mucus-like semen . |
| 3 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 4 | Somewhere in Lincolnshire , an old man 's beard entwines itself around and covers a sign reading : ‘ Danger — Unmanned Level Crossing Ahead With Freight Trains Full Of Nuclear Waste Passing Frequently . ’ |
| 5 | In the background a man 's voice pleads : ‘ Is she going to be all right ? |
| 6 | We give no special power to wealth ; The poor man 's voice commands equal authority . |
| 7 | The man 's friend denies helping him destroy evidence . |
| 8 | A DISABLED man 's benefit has been cut by 7p a week — because his wife is now entitled to a 7p weekly pension . |
| 9 | By id in this context I mean the unconscious , instinctual basis of behaviour from which man 's ego has become differentiated . |
| 10 | So man 's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched , for a tree does not know that it is wretched . |
| 11 | The Colonel 's enquiry was delivered as a statement , and he quickly and brazenly continued , ‘ Odd how man 's history resides in his middens . |
| 12 | Streams flow abundantly into the little River Axe , and close to the meeting-point of three counties a secluded no man 's land contains the exquisite Forde Abbey , its Cistercian isolation still largely undisturbed . |
| 13 | But as Jesus said , a man 's life does not consist in the , in the abundance of the things he possesses , that 's not how you gauge your person 's richness . |
| 14 | The working part of the working man 's life seems to last ‘ for ever ’ . |
| 15 | But he did not : the man 's life has become a fable of great imagination and his prowess as a winemaker has assumed almost mythical proportions . |
| 16 | The individual duration of one man 's life spans just a fraction of a cosmic second in these dense , material vibrations . |
| 17 | Not all of this man 's behaviour has yet been revealed , of course , but I can assure you that there is one incident to come which in itself justifies almost any degree of the pain that has so far been applied to his brain and his skin and his bones . |
| 18 | Knitted in Patons Pure New Wool Sport , the man 's jumper costs approximately £28 to knit , the woman 's about £24 and the child 's £15 . |
| 19 | He claims to have been drunk throughout most of his killing days : every line on Eastwood 's face and his stiff-in-the-saddle old man 's posture conveys how much each of Munny 's killings have chipped away at his heart and mind , leaving him the reformed shell we first see covered in pig-shit . |
| 20 | For example I shall later consider Bultmann , who has no classical two-nature Christology , but who says of Jesus , as of no other , that this was the man whom God raised from the dead ; so that for him this man 's resurrection becomes the pivot of history . |
| 21 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 22 | ‘ But the quality of any man 's service depends on his wellbeing . |
| 23 | The man 's identity has never been discovered . |
| 24 | Any man 's death diminishes me |
| 25 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Any man 's death diminishes me ’ ’ quoted Stevie , ‘ ‘ because I am involved in Mankind . ’ ’ |
| 27 | The man 's family says he did n't get adequate treatment . |
| 28 | Finally an Englishman did so , to be told by scowling fishermen that ‘ a drowning man 's hand turns against you ’ . |
| 29 | In examples such as this , de Man 's argument coincides with Nietzsche 's , allowing him to use the mode of paraphrase , which is characterised by a degree of authorial absence . |
| 30 | The dead man 's brother has gone to ground . |