Example sentences of "man [be] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 2 | So much , said Masha , for ‘ no man is an island . ’ |
| 3 | Day 2 No Man Is An Island |
| 4 | No man is an island |
| 5 | No man is an island |
| 6 | No man is an island ; no smallholder can possibly find the time or produce all the skills needed for complete self-sufficiency . |
| 7 | Since no man is an island it is impossible for him not to ‘ participate in the Hi sā that the very existence of society involves . ’ |
| 8 | The man is an unreconstructed fascist chauvinist … but he has great charm . |
| 9 | Man is an extension of the machine , useful only for doing things that the machine can not do . |
| 10 | ‘ We protect our members by making the buying club prove that their man is an established international , whose skills are not available in the EEC . |
| 11 | Repo Man is an insane , stupid film which poses as a satire on dead America ( cans of food and drink labelled FOOD and DRINK , TV evangelists , rich suburban punks ) , but in reality is a top silly comedy . |
| 12 | It was Charles Caleb Colton who said that man is an embodied paradox , a bundle of contradictions . |
| 13 | Man is an unwelcome intruder . |
| 14 | I doubt if this man is an exception . ’ |
| 15 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 16 | In Malinowski 's view man is an animal , even if sometimes a relatively cultured and social one . |
| 17 | By contrast , rational man is an egotist , who maximises his own self interest and has ‘ only limited concern ’ for the welfare of others . |
| 18 | The over-valuation of man is an ‘ illusion ’ , based on the wish that man could be better and live for ever . |
| 19 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 20 | ‘ No man is an island . ’ |
| 21 | So a white man is an evil man , whether he treats you nicely or not . ’ |
| 22 | At the very end of The Order of Things Foucault makes the seemingly baffling observation that " man is an invention of recent date and one perhaps nearing Its end " . |
| 23 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The man is an ass . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why , the man 's an institution ! ’ |
| 26 | The man 's an animal . ’ |
| 27 | The man 's an animal . |
| 28 | Give me a break , Merry , the man 's an ego on legs . ’ |
| 29 | The young man was an obvious don . |
| 30 | The man was an animal , a brute . ’ |