Example sentences of "man [coord] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the best were good enough to grace the amphitheatres ; a second class performance by man or beast was not tolerated and would probably lead to the inevitable ‘ thumbs down ’ . |
| 2 | There is a further clause in the 1950 law that permitted Manor to confirm that a man or woman was not an absentee if that person left his place of residence ‘ for fear that the enemies of Israel might cause him harm or otherwise than by reason or for fear of military operations , . |
| 3 | By fifty a married man or woman was as likely as not to have suffered widowhood , and would have already lost half his or her contemporaries : in contrast to a mere twentieth today . |
| 4 | Neither man nor beast was abroad . |
| 5 | The disease both of man and cattle was enormously important , but working with the human tuberculosis organism carried considerable risk of contracting an often incurable and sometimes fatal infection . |
| 6 | Yes because he was man and spirit was n't he ? |
| 7 | In Hebrew religion , and in that religion alone , man was joined to God by a quasi-legal covenant , as a result of which the ancient bond between man and nature was destroyed . |
| 8 | That strand of thought in Marx and Engels which stressed the dialectical unity of man and nature was left undeveloped , except in the neglected work of people like William Morris , generally dismissed as " Utopian " and not worthy of the attention of serious revolutionaries . |
| 9 | The mystery of man and woman was about to be unfurled before her . |
| 10 | Every man and woman was his slave . |
| 11 | ‘ For her , any difference between men and women was accounted for by education : |
| 12 | For some of the societies of West and Central Africa the loss of such large numbers of able-bodied young men and women was catastrophic in several respects . |
| 13 | This double standard of mores and values between attitudes to men and women was evident throughout the survey . |
| 14 | The unexplained gap between the pay of 26-year-old men and women was 51 per cent allowing only for educational background and employment experience , or 38 per cent allowing also for information on job characteristics . |
| 15 | However , a couple 's income continued to be aggregated and any progress towards the effective ( rather than formal ) equal treatment of men and women was undermined by the introduction of the ‘ full-time exclusion clause ’ . |
| 16 | An elderly man with a white pointed beard was being shepherded into a chauffeur-driven car by the short rough-haired woman in a thick tweed suit , who had been at Rupert 's house that evening in the autumn ; a little man carrying two heavy-looking suitcases was hurrying away as if to catch a train ; a group of younger men and women was standing on the pavement , talking and laughing . |
| 17 | There was a feeling at the Friday meetings — more men than women attended — that sexual possessiveness between men and women was out of order . |
| 18 | For each variable examined , the difference between men and women was tested for significance by the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 19 | The frequency fo H pylori infection in men and women was similar and increased with age as previously reported . |
| 20 | The deep and simple puritan piety of these men and women was , she saw , a response to the fear of ‘ worn-out and failed lives ’ . |
| 21 | It was natural for the Girls to go out with men but Tiller was possessive and seemed to expect them to remain single until they were about thirty years of age , then quietly fade away . |
| 22 | Agents , these days , they look like corporation men but Herrick was more show biz than Coco the Clown . |