Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man 's breakthrough is often another 's trifling adaptation . |
| 2 | The picture of God at a man 's mercy is surely one derived from the story 's primitive origins , and no longer to be taken seriously . |
| 3 | Man 's part is simply to prepare his heart continually by ridding his will of foreign attachments , his reason of anxieties , and his memory of idle or absorbing business — even though that business appear to be so very necessary . |
| 4 | ‘ Hit Man 's hair is so greasy you could cause a major oil glut just by draining his head . |
| 5 | The strong feeling of a presence is felt , lights go on and off , doors open and shut on their own , the shadow of a man 's head is sometimes seen ; but on recording sessions , many unnerving things can happen , heavy breathing down the musicians ' necks , brushing past people . |
| 6 | In the West we rely on the law of contract for all business agreements , but in a Moslem culture a man 's word is just as binding . |
| 7 | It is always worth remembering that no man 's credit is as good as his money . |
| 8 | ‘ The other man 's grass is always greener and I had the opportunity when I was younger to work abroad . |
| 9 | When man 's lifestyle is more natural , basic and strenuous , he glories in the ornate . |
| 10 | Nine man 's morris is just erm one of the games that is easy for them to devise if yo , if you want me to teach you how to play it , if you do n't know already I will . |
| 11 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 12 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 13 | This is generally taken to refer to ‘ Simon , son of Jonas ’ , even though the man 's father is elsewhere identified as Zebedee . |
| 14 | And the apostle Paul he gets open the scrolls and he starts in Genesis and he explains the plan of salvation , and he tells him what he 's got ta do , and he explains all the requirements , and about three or four hours later the man 's mind is completely blurred , he does n't understand a word of it , it 's gone way beyond him , course Paul does n't do that , he shoots back the answer straight away , believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved . |
| 15 | A judge has said that the state of a man 's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion . |
| 16 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 17 | A man 's role is thus within his control . |
| 18 | His argument is as follows : a man 's masculinity is indeed insecure ; it is an endless trial , a ‘ precariously held , endlessly tested , unstable condition ’ ( p. 91 ) . |
| 19 | Man 's individuality is now viewed against wider frames of unity such as the state , the balance of nature , the progress of evolution and the historical process . |
| 20 | Men 's unfaithfulness is rarely made the focus of a condemnatory press report during the trial , while women 's infidelity as the cause of trouble often becomes a major theme . |
| 21 | If they fail to find work and the Department of Employment considers it to be available , then their benefit would be cut in exactly the same way that men 's benefit is presently reduced or taken away altogether ( DHSS , 1978a , p. 92 ) . |
| 22 | Clearly ( as the employers were quick to point out ) keyboarding had nothing in common with what a man had learnt during his apprenticeship : it meant acquiring a new skill , But the men 's reluctance is still Surprising , and seems to be unique to Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Italian men 's fashion is typically a subtle affair , relying on the charm of fine fabrics and soft tailoring . |