Example sentences of "a man be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 2 | The fact that you fantasise about a woman rather than a man is neither here nor there in these circumstances . |
| 3 | Not that The Very Model of a Man is particularly romantic . |
| 4 | A man is either a faithful bastard or a faithless bastard . |
| 5 | A man is strongly shaped by such an inheritance . |
| 6 | and if a man is slightly stronger other way round so he can collect , collect more food |
| 7 | Such a man is already living in a different world . |
| 8 | The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant . |
| 9 | The reason why the doing what a man is already bound to do is no consideration , is not only because such a consideration is in judgment of law of no value , but because a man can hardly be allowed to say that the prior legal obligation was not his determining motive . |
| 10 | ‘ A man is nearly murdered in here and your officers knew about it ? ’ snapped Fairham . |
| 11 | Often it is a conscious rebellion against this sort of pressure which implies that such a man is only ‘ acceptable ’ to females if he is ‘ nice and clean ’ . |
| 12 | So a central issue at the meeting was whether a man is more like a dog , a rat , a pig or some other animal in terms of the distribution of endothelin receptors . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you perhaps believe a man is more susceptible to persuasion when he 's lying in bed naked in the middle of the night ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you also believe that a man is more easily persuaded by a beautiful , semi-naked girl . ’ |
| 15 | Hardly a man is now alive |
| 16 | The literal meaning seems to be that a man is so full of the Holy Spirit that he carries conviction when he speaks about Christ . |
| 17 | A man is certainly the most perfect Protestant , who protests against the whole Christian religion . |
| 18 | That could be very dangerous when a man is genuinely hurt , ’ said Nigel . |
| 19 | In the notebooks of Crime and Punishment , Marmeladov ( at this stage called ‘ the civil servant ’ ) is made to argue that ‘ if only a man is really alive , then he suffers , and therefore he needs Christ , and therefore Christ will come . ’ |
| 20 | If you want to know what a man is really like , take notice of how he acts when he loses money . |
| 21 | 5 The average height of a man is about 1¾ which is quite short compared with the polar bear of height 2⅝m that was found in Alaska in 1962 . |
| 22 | The picture we have of Theo as a man is extremely hazy . |
| 23 | It is now generally acknowledged that a man is usually at the peak of sexual potency and performance around the early twenties ; thereafter a slow decline sets in . |
| 24 | The identity of a man is basically no different from that of any other animal . |
| 25 | This means that if a man is truly brought to faith in Christ , he is not dependent on human teachers to lead him on , helpful though these may be . |
| 26 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 27 | A man is still being questioned about the death of Ian Barnes.Chris Moore reports . |
| 28 | A man is still being questioned tonight after the body of an elderly widower was found with shotgun wounds . |
| 29 | A man is still being questioned tonight after the body of an elderly widower was found with shotgun wounds . |
| 30 | A man is still being questioned tonight after the body of an elderly widower was found with shotgun wounds . |