Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be a man [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 2 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 3 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 4 | Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve . |
| 5 | They already knew that he was a man who could not be trusted to preserve the Union and to safeguard the social superiority of Protestant culture . |
| 6 | His action could simply be explained by ambition : his career in the north had shown that he was a man who liked and understood power . |
| 7 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 8 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 9 | His action could simply be explained by ambition : his career in the north had shown that he was a man who liked and understood power . |