Example sentences of "man 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's absolutely no reason to fear for your children 's love , and equally no reason to doubt your man 's attachment to you , then the problem has to be rooted in you as a person . |
| 2 | Election ‘ 92 : Egg case man 's link to Labour |
| 3 | Freud suggested that work was man 's link to reality because it was through work that the individual became linked to the human community . |
| 4 | Man 's humanity to horse |
| 5 | BEST MAN 'S TOAST TO BRIDE AND GROOM |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Or rather , showed that a woman 's and a man 's attitude to sex could henceforward be one and the same . |
| 9 | Moral philosophy , then , deals not with man 's ability to ‘ represent ’ in perception , but with what Hobbes calls the ‘ motions of the mind ’ — desire , aversion , love , and benevolence . |
| 10 | This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay . |
| 11 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 12 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 13 | ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The geometry of a temple 's construction relates to the human body and incorporates the principles of man 's relationship to the universe , thus forming a bridge , a living connection between the cosmic forces and the terrestrial . |
| 16 | In terms of man 's relationship to nature the key idea here is that of dominion . |
| 17 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 20 | Gandhi 's antipathy to preaching , which was characteristic of the Christian missionary activity he was acquainted with , may have derived from his attitude to mission work in general , but it is more likely that he considered a man 's life to be a more effective testimony to the truth of his religion that his words . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The latter is the respectable man 's introduction to idolatry . |
| 24 | A man 's advice to men at midlife is neither to try dressing like younger men nor to neglect the way they dress . |
| 25 | He can not forgive man 's cruelty to man ! ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Wexford , who had been lyrical , felt positively pained by this evidence of man 's indifference to nature 's glories . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | MASKED thugs pinned a man 's hand to a fence with a broken carving knife . |