Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one man 's nightmare is another 's dream . |
| 2 | A man 's appetites are half the man , and must be known if you would understand him . ’ |
| 3 | To be sure , one man 's meat is another 's nightmare . |
| 4 | Will he therefore assure the House that that proposal , which is supported by the Labour party , will be resisted most strenuously at Maastricht on the basis that one man 's subsidy is another man 's tax bill ? |
| 5 | Of course I accept that one man 's fun is another man 's nightmare , and because of this more companies should think about creating ready-made racks for those who want them , or maybe just come up with designs and ideas for those who want to build their own . |
| 6 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 7 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 8 | All of which shows that one man 's staple is another man 's delicatessen or , rather , that the necessities of one generation can become the luxuries of the next . |
| 9 | One man 's second-order is another man 's first-order experience . |
| 10 | ‘ One man 's trash is another man 's treasure , ’ Totter said in a maddeningly calm voice , wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so . |
| 11 | The intensity on the man 's face was all the persuasion he needed to increase his speed . |
| 12 | ‘ One man 's ethics is another man 's priggery , ’ said Chatterton carelessly . |
| 13 | In Cambridge , one man 's snack is another man 's filthy pong . |
| 14 | A national network for those wanting to join the Men 's Movement is another of his projects . |