Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 3 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 4 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 5 | The RUC said : ‘ It appears the journalist met a man who is unknown to him and whose identity he is unable to verify . |
| 6 | Afterwards the RUC said : ‘ It appears the journalist met a man who is unknown to him and whose identity he is unable to verify . |
| 7 | Yet here he was , a man who is a reasonable outside bet for the vacant crown at the RSC , reading favourable reviews for his previous work , Another Time with Albert Finney ( which had opened the night before in the West End ) , and preparing to rehearse in a Methodist Hall in the middle of Wesley country . |
| 8 | At least Gooch had the consolation of getting out to the best of the home bowlers , and to a man who is coached by former Indian captain , Kapil Dev . |
| 9 | I know Roy 's limitations , as does he , but there must be a physical presence to offset the rest of the midfield ’ was the coach 's verdict on a man who is one short of 50 caps . |
| 10 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 11 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 12 | But much , in any case , must be allowed to a man who is single-handedly fighting against the times . |
| 13 | The welcome for the man who is recognised as a significant player in unleashing the democratic tides sweeping Eastern Europe was genuine and widespread . |
| 14 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 15 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 16 | If you are king of a country in which six out of every ten people are Palestinians , and where Islamic fundamentalism is growing , you do not last long by siding with America against the man who is firing missiles into Tel Aviv . |
| 17 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 18 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 19 | What can one write for a man who is dying , who is going into a world where there are no books , no words ? |
| 20 | The picture he paints of the young Arthur Wellesley is of a man who is calm , courageous and decisive in the face of the enemy , but austere , remote and somewhat harsh in his personal life and relationships with others . |
| 21 | A kindly man who is trying to nudge Mr Karimov away from repressive measures , Mr Zakhidov admitted that the government apparatus was as corrupt as ever but suggested that the president himself was clean . |
| 22 | It is easier to carve Neil Kinnock into chunks : the party boss , the family man , the orator , the man who is fit to govern , the would-be Prime Minister . |
| 23 | R. W. F. Poole goes on patrol with a man who is helping landowners to fight back |
| 24 | ‘ Nice ’ is a wholly inadequate adjective to describe any man who is elected Prime Minister . |
| 25 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 26 | Leapor is firm that her friend will be happier with a man who is dependable and who lives within his means . |
| 27 | It is natural that any suggestion of lack of … of affection for this child should so upset a man who is of the highest integrity — ’ |
| 28 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 29 | But no man who is crippled so can be acceptable . |
| 30 | In the susceptible man who is exposed to infection , the first signs develop after four or five days . |