Example sentences of "man [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never a man to be deprived of the sun and the soft wind in his face . |
| 2 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 3 | He points out how for Smith , ‘ The similarity between the average Londoner or Berliner to-day , and the average ‘ primitive man ’ … is insisted on' , and quotes from Smith 's text sentiments which reverberate throughout Eliot 's own work : ‘ There is no innate tendency in man to be progressive . ’ |
| 4 | Fr John is a lucky man to be coming to this parish . |
| 5 | At that point , I 'm thinking this is going to turn into a junior Tootsie — you know , it takes a man to be a real feminist . |
| 6 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 7 | He was a tweedy man , with rough-chopped hair and a blotchy complexion , younger than Miss Lavender liked a professional man to be . |
| 8 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 9 | He has the distinction of being among Britain 's 100 richest men , and also of being the first man to be kicked out of Lloyd 's — in 1982 for ‘ discreditable conduct ’ . |
| 10 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 11 | Much of John Tawell 's adventurous and notorious life has been forgotten , but he does remain exclusive in criminal history , as the first man to be trapped by electric telegraph . |
| 12 | He knew the local man to be in his mid-forties , and he adjudged his companion a little over 30 . |
| 13 | He was not a man to be taunted into action ; his function was to eject troublemakers . |
| 14 | He then vacated the chair saying , ‘ on second thoughts , it is not a decent chair for a man to be seen in ’ . |
| 15 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 16 | They all condemned what had happened to Hector , but there grew a feeling that well , it was only natural for a strong young man to be ambitious … |
| 17 | It 's not natural for a young man to be frowsting away indoors , in a fine crisp day like this ! |
| 18 | The first man to be appointed as Minister , Lance Buckmaster , had seemed logical . |
| 19 | Mr Gillis , the Butcher , was a man to be treated very carefully because he put up with no nonsense , had a vicious temper and he bore grudges . |
| 20 | But Uncle Mick was still , even at seventy , a man to be reckoned with and he managed without any great effort to intimidate the group or at least deflect their more sinister intentions . |
| 21 | The solution was for the ‘ wild stock ’ of the average man to be amended by the grafting on of ‘ the better conscience ’ . |
| 22 | The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down . |
| 23 | Richard Aslett Pearce was the first born-deaf man to be ordained in Britain , and he continued to do pastoral work throughout Hampshire until his death in 1928 . |
| 24 | With our modern use of words it is possible to look at God 's statement in Genesis 2:18 — ‘ It is not good for the man to be alone . |
| 25 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 26 | Rufus soon regretted his indiscretion — Admiral Greave , not a man to be trifled with , cast him adrift on the planet Killey to collect rare and valuable crystals found on the surface . |
| 27 | Genesis tell us that , ‘ It is not good for the man to be alone , ’ revealing that we belong together . |
| 28 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 29 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 30 | Of course , a birth certificate allowed a man to be a bit flamboyant , while the directory , which might bring him trade , needed to be perfectly honest about what he was up to … |