Example sentences of "man 's [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 2 | The blond man 's T-shirt had been removed and tucked into his belt so it hung limply behind him . |
| 3 | Man 's capacity to mythologize was a remnant of his pre-lapsarian capacity to see into the life of things : |
| 4 | We noticed the man 's wallet had been cut away from the belt round his waist . |
| 5 | A DISABLED man 's benefit has been cut by 7p a week — because his wife is now entitled to a 7p weekly pension . |
| 6 | But the man 's presence had been unnerving and he was capable of lying . |
| 7 | The man 's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters . |
| 8 | Just as she felt ashamed and somehow responsible for the disgrace of her mother 's lover so she felt that the man 's attack had been her fault . |
| 9 | The man 's throat had been cut from ear to ear , soaking his shirt and trousers in blood . |
| 10 | While ordering the drawings in the Turner Bequest , Ruskin wrote to Elizabeth Browning in 1858 that he believed ‘ the old man 's soul had been gradually crushed within him , leaving him at the close of his life weak , sinful , desolate — nothing but his generosity and kindness of heart left ’ . |
| 11 | The shaikh was concerned because a man 's arm had been broken ; but the cause of the dispute was the use of government resources to damage the interests of rival lineages . |
| 12 | In this case , the man 's grandfather had been a well-known bone-setter for his gentle touch , but the father had been a bone-cracking bone-setter . |
| 13 | A man 's body has been found in a barn that was destroyed by fire . |
| 14 | In the following year the President argued that man 's nature had been used by God and that state-imposed collective responsibility was unnecessary : Christian altruism had worked through an ‘ inevitable though almost undetected stimulation of Egoism ’ . |
| 15 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |