Example sentences of "than [prep] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 2 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 4 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 5 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |