Example sentences of "man be [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Very Model of a Man is at is best when Cain justifies his fratricide with this lethal logic .
2 If modern man is to be persuaded , it will be on pragmatic grounds .
3 Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography .
4 If man is to be delivered from this , he must , like Christ , suffer a form of crucifixion .
5 A RETIRED Navy man is to be reunited with his best friend after almost 40 years , thanks to readers of The Northern Echo .
6 The man was to be got through this particular exam because he was from Cambridge .
7 John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God .
8 The man was to be given 3000 s. morlaas and the seneschal of Gascony was to constrain Arnaud-Raymond 's heirs to implement his wishes .
9 The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows , where he was hanged .
10 Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces .
11 There is enough to do , if all the listed men are to be visited and spoken to . ’
12 Now men are to be hunters and predators .
13 In contrast to the administrative procedures operating before 1986 , the Act authorizes warrants to be granted for preventing as well as detecting crime , thereby compromising the important question of principle identified by Dicey that ‘ preventive measures are inconsistent with the pervading principle of English law , that men are to be interfered with or punished , not because they may or will break the law , but only when they have committed some definite assignable legal offence ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 249 ) .
14 DOZENS of men are to be exposed as clients of vice girl Kathy Willets after a court ruled her little black book can be made public .
15 This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power ’ ( Dignitatis Humanae 2 ) .
16 From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) .
17 The issue is whether these men are to be allowed to opt out of the rule of law …
18 My father said , ‘ Men are to be feared , not wolves . ’
19 Former Mayor Billy Bleakes said it was ‘ scandalous that honest men are to be made scapegoats ’ , and accused the Unionist members of pursuing a vendetta against the workers .
20 Former Mayor Billy Bleakes said it was ‘ scandalous that honest men are to be made scapegoats ’ , and accused the Unionist members of pursuing a vendetta against the workers .
21 The jury was told the men were to be paid £1,000 each with £500 expenses by Mr Brown 's wife to kill him .
22 One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released .
23 Wherever possible , Red Army men were to be installed on the committees .
24 In these samples older farmers were found in Leicestershire , Cumbria and Derbyshire , whilst the younger men were to be found mainly in North Wales , North Yorkshire , Orkney and Speyside .
25 The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers .
26 An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid .
27 In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned .
28 Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration .
29 Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements .
30 The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development .
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