Example sentences of "man be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 2 | How , for example , can a man be a British citizen when he is born in a foreign country of foreign parents and has never been naturalised ? |
| 3 | The racially inspired threats which Sterling told me he received after taking the title illustrated the resentment felt at a black man being a British champion . |
| 4 | Women will continue to choose men — or men women ; each sex always believes it is the other which does the choosing — the man being a little older , a little richer , a little more decisive than the woman , for this is how the majority of the human race pairs itself off , and why the myth of female inferiority is so prevalent throughout the world — it being the direct experience of so many children in so many households that Daddy knows best and Mummy 's a fool . |
| 5 | ‘ Is this man being a nuisance to you , my dear ? |
| 6 | I have no idea of a man being a good diplomatist who does not give good dinners ' , he provoked widespread ridicule . |
| 7 | If a man be a good worker and preacher in one parish , the chances are he will be successful in another , but if he be feeble and indifferent at home no amount of artificially generated steam , raised to outstrip an opponent and gull a congregation on a particular Sunday , will endow him with energy and eloquence . |
| 8 | The shrugger does n't care whether he lives or dies — and the designer duel arranged for himself by this divided and indifferent man is a form of Russian roulette . |
| 9 | Remember the old man is a sportsman — good at killing , and at chasing slaves . |
| 10 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 11 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Changing a man is a way women can show their power . |
| 13 | No , Jack , man is a monogamous animal and there 's no partnership on earth to touch a happy marriage . |
| 14 | The Green Man is a good example . |
| 15 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 16 | NO MAN is a hero to his valet : the close and obedient servant sees all the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of his master . |
| 17 | ‘ You will surely tell me that this universal proposition is true ‘ Every man is a biped ’ … |
| 18 | In the coalfields , the district League organized a more sustained propaganda campaign , touring the colliery villages with ‘ flying squads ’ , vilifying ‘ Cookism ’ , supporting the Spencer brand of non-political company unionism and propagating the League 's new slogan : ‘ every man is a capitalist ’ . |
| 19 | According to Shannonside , he described ‘ Señor de Reurque ’ as follows : ‘ Although this man is a savage , he is a very good Christian and an enemy of heretics , always carrying on war with them . ’ |
| 20 | After all , the continuity between man and animal can as well be achieved by showing that man is a machine as by ascribing intentions to animals . |
| 21 | In person , this seemingly mild man is a great deal more watchable and engaging than some of his movies . |
| 22 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 23 | Every man is a piece of the continent , |
| 24 | This man is a stranger , and bigger and stronger than I am . |
| 25 | Man is a chordate . |
| 26 | The only thing I can do now is to let out a great shout with you , ‘ Ça ira ’ for men and for people , believing that man is a world worth many times the world and that the most ardent ambitions are those which have the pride of Anonymity . |
| 27 | It is possible that yet another unique quality of man is a capacity for genuine , disinterested , true altruism . |
| 28 | The man is a monster . |
| 29 | ‘ The soul of man is a world full of beings , a kingdom in which armies clash to help or hinder a supreme conquest . |
| 30 | In an article entitled ‘ Spirit of the Upanishads ’ ( The Upanishads are of course Hindu holy books ) on page 18 we read ‘ The Upanishads speak of God … maintaining that such a being is formless , all pervasive and transcendent , OF WHICH THE SOUL OR THE SPIRIT OF MAN IS A PART … |