Example sentences of "man [coord] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Father 's Day coincides with an annual cycling week in the Isle of Man and Chris and family will be toasting Keith over a meal .
2 ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ?
3 On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing .
4 The chief god of the philistines , Dagan ( or Dagon ) is represented with the face and hands of a man or woman and the tail of a fish .
5 When facing an opponent , it is essential to concentrate only on that man or woman and not on our fear .
6 Corbett could not prove that but he recognised the kind of man who could concoct cunning elixirs which could kill a man or woman and leave no trace .
7 It relates to the average man or woman and no one can say whether an individual plaintiff is that average man or woman .
8 Nature had drawn a demarcation line far more precise than any national frontier drawn by man and Trent and Mariana burst free of the rain forest and into the pine-clad uplands at nineteen hundred feet .
9 Mind you Don Johnson and Melanie Griffi Griffith are alright , are man and wife but they 're not in every film together are they ?
10 To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque .
11 And in this sense it must be said that the Resistance experience , by making us believe that politics is a relationship between man and man or between consciousnesses , fostered our illusions of 1939 and masked the truth of the incredible power of history which the Occupation taught us in another connection .
12 But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty .
13 Liebow 's success was the greater since he was a white man and Tally and his friends were black .
14 This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing .
15 In this chapter I shall describe the genital region in man and woman and discuss some aspects of normal sexual function and variations in sexual behaviour
16 One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat .
17 I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together .
18 Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . "
19 Some drugs are useful agents in the treatment of disease in man and animals but some may also produce undesirable effects .
20 Water supply would be important for both man and beast and many remains are not far from streams such as those near Lossit burn , Kintour river , and Duich river .
21 Water supply would be important for both man and beast and many remains are not far from streams such as those near Lossit burn , Kintour river , and Duich river .
22 I was surprised , therefore , on starting to read this book , to find that there were three introductory chapters with sections on Man and computers and The computer as a laboratory as well as the more intriguing Computer chemistry and human psychology and Problem solving and artificial intelligence .
23 Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it .
24 ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ?
25 " Skilled workers ' refers to both men and women but " manpower " is still manpower .
26 Er there has been cases where er there has been er some sort of erm affairs between men and women but the majority and psychological er think way of thinking that er the Asian woman always think of their husbands only , nothing else .
27 Indirect discrimination involves some pre-condition or obstacle which , on the fact of it , applies equally to men and women but which in practice less women ( or men ) can comply with than men ( or women ) .
28 Security was to be bought — at least sometimes — but not for free men and women but , as the English terminology put it clearly , for ‘ servants ’ — whose liberty was strictly constrained : domestic servants , ‘ railway servants ’ , even ‘ civil servants ’ ( or public officials ) .
29 Penetrative sex without a condom between men and women or men and men can lead to transmission of HIV .
30 Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated .
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