Example sentences of "man 's [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These questions have lost nothing of their force in the decades since 1914 as subsequent conflicts have contributed their own appalling demonstration of man 's capacity for inhumanity , and as a new sensitivity has developed to the dilemmas facing the human race and to the degree of inequality and injustice in human affairs in general . |
| 2 | Chomsky claims that an understanding of transformational grammar is essential for any philosopher , psychologist or biologist who wishes to take account of man 's capacity for language . |
| 3 | There may indeed be something in the Professore 's argument that the major fault of Marxism was to over-estimate man 's capacity for altruism , for purity , for in tellectual-philosophic sustenance . |
| 4 | Rolle warns against taking any of it seriously : He ends the address to the solitary with his playful warning on the necessity of distinguishing between inner holiness and outward habit having previously established that : The phrase , characteristic of Rolle , " byrnes in luf of Jhesu Criste " combines man 's love for God with God 's for man in a fire which sets man alight . |
| 5 | The most significant stones of man 's quest for woman in this genre — like Rider Haggard 's ‘ She ’ novels , Masefield 's Odtaa and Sard Harker , William de Morgan 's Joseph Vance , Milton 's Lost Horizon — override the convention of the happy ending in a conclusion of happy pessimism , an almost cherished melancholy , a sense of emotional growth coming from loss and failure . |
| 6 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 7 | The passage of time , however , is a concept seemingly grasped only by humans , so Western man 's search for Methuselahs seems to reflect his innate concern to fathom time . |
| 8 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 9 | Almost always considered secondary to his poetry , Masefield 's fiction has the same basic theme , man 's search for beauty — in nature , in ideas and , often , in the ideal of womanhood . |
| 10 | Physics , Jones argues , is a metaphor , a symbolic expression of man 's search for meaning and understanding , and always a creative enterprise . |
| 11 | In these days when inter-faith dialogue can easily slip into syncretism , and when man 's search for God can easily supplant all idea of God 's self-disclosure to man , it is most important to remember the emphatic union which the New Testament asserts between the Holy Spirit and Jesus . |
| 12 | A homebody 's disgust with the restless owners of fast cars , a temperate man 's contempt for drinkers were impacted into this begrudged advice . |
| 13 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 14 | And there these twelve men and two boys , who , with nothing much but bare hands , the sailor man 's gift for improvisation , and their indomitable guts , had fought sea and fire for their ship and won , were cared for and each of them given his heart 's desire . |
| 15 | If it is insisted that image worship is nothing but a form of idol worship , Gandhi 's response to this accusation is that image worship is simply indicative of man 's need for symbols . |
| 16 | Man 's need for forgiveness/reconciliation |
| 17 | The suffering involved in facing the enormity of man 's potential for sin is the only cure for the greater suffering . |
| 18 | Ian Wiley won the men 's kayaks for Ireland again . |
| 19 | Jane — downstairs had remarked on men 's capacity for self-deception ; women are n't bad at it either . |
| 20 | When I checked in , River Island in Castle Lane , were having a massive sale , with multi-coloured , cotton , men 's shirts for £14.99 , suede bombers at £59.99 and leather jackets from £80 . |
| 21 | And the pressure remained at the top : no access to the old boys ' clubs or men 's rooms for deal-making , and the constant reminder that ‘ if a man fails it 's because he 's inadequate , but if a female does it 's because of her sex . ’ |