Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SDP man 's compensation for his years of public sevice was a seat in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | He would hand over the old man 's baccy for the week and a few sweeties then , after a bit of chat , he was away . ’ |
| 3 | Blanche held the man 's gaze for a second and glanced back down at the piece of paper . |
| 4 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Combined with their conviction of man 's capacity for utilitarian calculation of the effects of his actions , or , in Priestleyan terms , properly judged motive , this was an outlook able to be squared with the Quaker and evangelical pursuit of righteousness . |
| 8 | In respect of a common activist orientation towards achieving a providentially sanctioned order in the world , based upon faith in man 's capacity for moral progress , the tensions between Rational Dissent/Unitarianism and the other religious traditions in antislavery reform were of secondary importance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For , ‘ Mr Novak , ’ he corrected , adding , ‘ in a majority of Czech names , ‘ ova ’ is added to the end of a man 's surname for his wife when he marries . ’ |
| 11 | Although it is doubtless significant that the two texts on the Soviet Union written by Nizan , " Le Tombeau de Timour " and " Sindobod Tocikiston " , are centred on man 's struggle for socialist construction against the forces of nature in Central Asia , far removed from the political intrigue of Moscow , their significance is to be located in a heightened awareness of metaphysical despair rather than in any fundamental disenchantment with the social and political advances of the Soviet experiment itself . |
| 12 | I have the reasonable man 's preference for continuing alive . ’ |
| 13 | Now that they were safely back aboard , minus an Astropath but plus one locked stasis-trunk , the Harlequin man 's excuse for shooting Moma Parsheen failed to satisfy Jaq . |
| 14 | A junior minister 's pay scarcely covers the cost of a man 's cartridges for the year , but Soames did not give the matter a second thought . |
| 15 | If he ca n't understand a man 's obliga-tion to a friend , how can he understand a man 's love for a woman ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 19 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
| 20 | The tribunal went on to condemn the man 's employers for their handling of the situations , and it also ‘ doubted that the man had ever indulged in sexual harassment or over-familiarity with staff . |
| 21 | As he got to know Minton well , Tindle could not help admiring the older man 's flair for living and the way his response was never dense or dead . |
| 22 | And what about ‘ Butter has been in man 's diet for thousands of years , so you can have confidence in it ’ ? |
| 23 | That was the rich man 's panacea for the litany of ills of the poor . |
| 24 | One of Jaci Stephen 's gems ( Spring Edition ) you omitted was the occasion she suggested that one man 's motive for daring to criticise her was a size limitation in the manhood department . |
| 25 | To return to the possible origin of man 's wish for a god ; his mammalian nature ensured that after birth he was helpless and utterly dependent on his parents , and the father , mother and child situation ruled . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Physics , Jones argues , is a metaphor , a symbolic expression of man 's search for meaning and understanding , and always a creative enterprise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |