Example sentences of "man was [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six , 5–7 : ‘ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth … |
| 2 | the wickedness of man was great in the earth |
| 3 | Today , benefiting from psychoanalytic insights , we would probably say that man was distinguishable from the beasts by virtue of his possession of a highly evolved and differentiated ego , and still more by his acquisition of the superego . |
| 4 | The man was ignorant of the Empress 's scheme , but when Isabel glanced back at his face she saw only too clearly his opinion of her visit to their guest 's room . |
| 5 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 6 | Social workers are now receiving information about the school stretching back to 1970 , well before either man was involved with the private institution . |
| 7 | The midfield man was involved in the move that put Bari ahead after five minutes . |
| 8 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 9 | As we have already said , a creation myth which was symbolically true would have to convey that neither woman nor man was present before the other ; moreover , not that they were created out of dust but that they were integrally related to the rest of the animal creation . |
| 10 | This was what happened when a man was loose in the house . |