Example sentences of "which man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 2 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 3 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Affection is the first language which man understands , and it becomes the lever by which all other languages can be initially learned … . |
| 6 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 7 | There must come a point at which man must stop trying to decide his own destiny , and I believe that point has come now , in our time . |
| 8 | A Bolshevik ( and , it might be argued , a Marxist ) ideology in which man 's mastery over nature is essential in the rapid development of the forces of production is central here . |
| 9 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 10 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 11 | Most humans no longer live in constant threat of danger , although there are powerful natural forces such as earthquakes , floods and drought which man is impotent to control . |
| 12 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 13 | Overriding all these considerations , however , is her forthright view that these linguistic schemes were ultimately nonsense , for the excellent reason that artificial languages are not compatible with the ways in which man and languages actually operate . |
| 14 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 15 | It is the time during which the evolutionary process was producing the human form as it now is , and laying down the pattern from which man , in remote retrospect , can now extract the necessary information on which to lay the foundation of the concept of the Created God , and to understand how he must develop that concept . |
| 16 | This massive build-up of ‘ goodness ’ which can be considered as the sum total of all the ‘ good ’ of the favourable events of evolution , is the origin of the Created God , an origin which has been established by evolution , and which man must designate sacred . |
| 17 | Something which man has yet to design for himself ! |
| 18 | Soon she knew the workers by name and could tell Stephen which man 's wife kept a neat house and whose was a slut . |
| 19 | For many people there is something terrifying in the thought that in a universe in which man is so insignificant in comparison with the unreasoning forces of nature , most of his own organism belongs to or wants to defect to nature . |
| 20 | In the older Chinese cosmology Heaven ordains by its decree everything which man must accept as unalterable by his actions , the nature he is born with , the moral rules he should obey , the changes of fortune and the day of his death . |
| 21 | Confucians ever since Mencius ( fl. 320 BC ) were very much concerned with the problem that if , as seems evident , there is evil in the nature which man receives from Heaven , to do evil in accordance with one 's nature would seem to have the authority of Heaven . |
| 22 | The girl then decides which man is her partner . |
| 23 | She believed what she had said and yet those last words had a curious prophetic ring — as if somewhere in those uncharted seas which man calls Time , they were echoing and re-echoing into the future . |
| 24 | Then he will sometimes peradventure send a beam of ghostly light piercing this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and him , and show thee some of his privity of the which man may not nor can not speak . |
| 25 | The context in which man is created to work is controlled by a specific mandate . |
| 26 | It is no accident that the rise of science and technology and subsequently industrialisation and the process of wealth creation followed the acceptance of an explicitly Biblical view of the world in which manual work was not considered contemptible and in which man was delegated the task of managing the world 's resources for his benefit . |
| 27 | It centres in the conviction that the very idea of God is itself a projection in which man seeks to transcend the limitations of his own finitude . |
| 28 | So Brunner rejected the possibility of an independent natural theology in which man could attain to knowledge of God through the general revelation in nature ; for the defacing of the image of God in him had made that impossible . |
| 29 | God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire . |
| 30 | Dolphins ( and many other sea creatures ) can , by muscular power and their own dynamic shape , attain speeds in water which man can not yet emulate without using excessive amounts of power . |