Example sentences of "it is [adv] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 2 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 3 | Third , the views of the innate aggressionists and their followers reflect — and implicitly reinforce — sexism , since it is usually man who is presented in the Hobbesian mould , with a sleight-of-hand extension of man into Man . |
| 4 | The vast majority of torturers are men simply because it is usually men who do military service , work as police or in concentration camps . |
| 5 | The animals seem to be happy and contented in their lives , it is only man who is melancholy . |