Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun sg] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposite case , where the departure from the norm is in the direction of sentence complexity rather than simplicity , is illustrated in Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea : the culmination of the Old Man 's battle with the fish is related in ( for Hemingway ) unusually complex sentences , conveying a climactic frenzy of movement against the background of Hemingway 's more usual simplicity of style . |
| 2 | Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world . |
| 3 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 4 | At eight o'clock tonight , Central viewers will be able to see a unique programme listing the effects of man 's interference with the environment . |
| 5 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 6 | Into the excitement is woven a tragic sense of the Fall , both as something Romantically conceived ( the ruin of the earth , of Man 's relationship with the beasts , of the erotic life ) and as straight Christian theology . |
| 7 | Early man 's relationship with the birds offers a fairly obvious route to a possible understanding of this . |
| 8 | Man 's relationship with the animal kingdom and with the natural world as a whole is also affected by this belief in the essential unity of all that exists . |
| 9 | The employers conceded the claim for higher wages , and the union went on to express the men 's dissatisfaction with the 1850 Act . |