Example sentences of "man in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 2 | Well — at Dunkeld fair that autumn , Roy here bites a man in the calf of his leg — it was the tinker ! ’ |
| 3 | She did n't , but in the morning as she snapped off the alarm , anxious not to wake Rodney , she saw that the man in the next bed was not Rodney , nor was he asleep . |
| 4 | That is the advice of the Timber Trades Journal , which discovered , from a lumber man in the USA , that the figuring is created by sap pockets exploding in the spring . |
| 5 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 6 | Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide . |
| 7 | They stand tall , jut their chins out , call no one Sir and can lick any man in the house . |
| 8 | She juts her chin out , stands tall , and could lick any man in the house . |
| 9 | There is also uncertainty surrounding the role of David Murray , the Rangers football club chairman , who has acted as a middle man in the negotiations but who has denied he has any financial interest in the takeover . |
| 10 | Indignant over suggestions that the Prime Minister has replaced his Jaguar with a Rover , Nigel Lawson can at least draw comfort from the fact that he is a wanted man in the City . |
| 11 | ‘ Bring your wheelbarrow ! ’ yells the man in the white cap merrily . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're staying ! ’ shouted one man in the crowd that greeted the Soviet leader when he laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame . |
| 13 | But there are other differences between the government frontbench and the man in the wings . |
| 14 | But the man in the street will say : how can it get worse ? |
| 15 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Soviet troops killed a second man in the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh and Azerbaijan extended its railway blockade of Armenia to neighbouring Georgia , Soviet newspapers said . |
| 16 | Regret because maybe her husband will find out and want to know why she was going with another man in the first place . |
| 17 | I accepted a tin of pipe tobacco and two boxes of scented soap to trade with the old man in the nearby cottage . |
| 18 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 19 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 20 | The man in the row in front arches backwards over his seat , his breath sucked in through clenched teeth . |
| 21 | Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ . |
| 22 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 23 | President Mobutu of Zaire has publicly objected to not being acknowledged as the seventh richest man in the world . |
| 24 | A man in the side-chapel took photos . |
| 25 | We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . |
| 26 | Its effects can vary from never looking a man in the eye or never arguing with a man , to wearing a Burkha . |
| 27 | ‘ You connected this call with the man in the car ? ’ |
| 28 | She 's holding up this straw hat — a bit like the one in the picture on my wall — you know , the one with the man in the boat . |
| 29 | The aim of this is to test the flexibility of every man in the group by imposing a situation which requires a major change in the plan , at no notice . |
| 30 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |