Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there again , Nigger Asnett had never been accused of being a prudent man . |
| 2 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 3 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
| 4 | When not drunk or nursing a grievance , Brown was capable of being a big man , honest , courageous , intelligent , prodigiously hard-working and with an unclouded view of Britain 's proper place in a changing world . |
| 5 | He has the reputation of being a cold man , and appears to enjoy neither his power nor his wealth , though I find that difficult to believe since he works so hard to keep them . ’ |
| 6 | He has the distinction of being among Britain 's 100 richest men , and also of being the first man to be kicked out of Lloyd 's — in 1982 for ‘ discreditable conduct ’ . |
| 7 | There are Opposition Members who take some perverse delight in running down Britain 's environmental record and who are all too often to be found , both at home and abroad , adding their voices to those who accuse Britain of being the dirty man of Europe . |
| 8 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 9 | FRED COUPLES gave the appearance of being the coollest man in town yesterday when , with a final round of 70 , he won the Masters at Augusta National , beating the evergreen Raymond Floyd by two strokes . |
| 10 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 11 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 12 | ‘ Although I 'm very far from being a rich man as yet , ’ Harry said with a smile , ‘ by Mum 's and Dad 's standards I am . |
| 13 | Yet he was far from being a conventional man of business . |
| 14 | M sh you see that I was saying , to be a farm labourer in those days you 'd got to be a clever man , you 'd got to know how much wheat to shove to an acre , no waste , you see ? |
| 15 | Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind . |
| 16 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 17 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 18 | He was now approaching thirty years old and , as the year turned , he wanted desperately to get an audition for the new movie they were all talking about , in which the star was to be a young man playing opposite an older woman . |
| 19 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 20 | Rose gave a tiny stifled scream and the third person in the bay window proved itself to be a young man by throwing back his head and shouting with laughter . |
| 21 | ‘ Aye ; you 've got to be a real man to play this game , ’ Howie says , winking and taking up his glass . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that what it 's like to be a mechanical man ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't said anything against them , ’ Gaily knew himself to be a tolerant man , ‘ the young … ’ |
| 24 | I wish to be a good man and a Christian , but I am no Whig , no Reformist , no Republican . ’ |
| 25 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 26 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 27 | This was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , er a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , plan our life out and try and lie up to his standards , he says I have come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost . |
| 28 | We know the Minister to be a reasonable man . |
| 29 | She had known her father to be a kindly man : he would do anything to keep the peace and keep people happy . |
| 30 | A message , unspoken , was there between them : he was to be a new man , there was to be a new relationship . |