Example sentences of "ordinary [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 2 | Perhaps arising from the close personal comradeship of those war years was Basil 's empathy with ordinary working folk . |
| 3 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 4 | Throughout the decade , Grierson had been sponsoring young filmmakers to go out and record the lives of ordinary working people . |
| 5 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 6 | I refer to the ordinary working people of Britain . |
| 7 | At the root of Orwell 's socialism was a belief in the decency of ordinary working people and their capacity to prevent the necessary centralization of a socialist economy from degenerating into totalitarianism . |
| 8 | Williamson , through his mainly autobiographical work , was to provide a panorama of views on the impact of the war on ordinary working people and the lower middle classes , and through the hero of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Phillip Maddison , was to show how the experience could lead to support for fascism ; Mosley was to appear as Sir Hereward Birkin and the BUF as the Imperial Socialist party in the later volumes of the epic . |
| 9 | The division between the more affluent home-owning households of ordinary working people and the less advantaged under-class households is coming to be more significant than conventional divisions based on the manual/ non-manual distinction . |
| 10 | And how they should be no longer answerable to ordinary working people they know best , they will decide their political record is far from impressive lost four general elections the last one was on their agenda ! |
| 11 | We still have our two traditional enemies , but now a third looms an enemy in the Labour Party an enemy supporting the now ancient cry of the Tories and the Tory national press , for one man one vote replacing the vote in the trade unions a distancing of the Labour Party from the unions if we let them get away with this , it would mean none of the established political parties represent the interests of ordinary working people the people who I 've always represented , that 's what I think about , just them ! |
| 12 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 13 | And the experience they gathered could be channelled to us , keeping the New Internationalist in touch with the experience of peasants and ordinary working people . |
| 14 | In fact , the biggest section of people involved in the social security system are ordinary working people — the 20 million or so people who contribute every week to the national insurance fund , those mugs who pay in every week in the mistaken belief that at the end of their working days , or if a crisis should arise , they will have benefits to fall back on when times get tough . |
| 15 | They 're ordinary working people , they wan na be independent gentlemen ! |
| 16 | There have been many attacks on our society the trade used by taking our finances and yet , by their economic mistakes and profitization , we , the ordinary working people , pick up the bill . |
| 17 | Strangers , the poor , knights , soldiers , friars , and ordinary rural people are provided for . |
| 18 | Peter Townsend 's classic The Family Life of Old People ( 1957 ) still remains in many ways the most sympathetic and sensitive portrait of ordinary old people 's lives published in Britain . |
| 19 | Oral historians had meanwhile begun to record the earlier memories of ordinary old people , working right across the country . |
| 20 | Much of it is now irrecoverably lost ; for the lack of interest in the experience of ordinary old people shown by historians is mirrored in the scanty documentation which survives from the past . |
| 21 | Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues . |
| 22 | The ordinary German people could only sit and watch while he reduced their homes , possessions and friends to rubble and a tangled , indistinguishable mess . |
| 23 | The Eurodisney share price , 707p in sterling terms , is determined by its price in Paris and the relative exchange rates , and the issue will succeed or fail on the willingness of ordinary French people to invest in this project . |
| 24 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 25 | Therefore , by closing down the range of possible moral excuse , the definitionalist is imposing his morality upon the law and breaking the vital nexus between the current standards of ordinary decent people and the content of the criminal law . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal ruled that outside s.2(1) the question of dishonesty was for the jury applying " the current standards of ordinary decent people " . |
| 27 | The accused is dishonest if his conduct is dishonest according to the current standards of ordinary decent people and if the accused knows that his conduct is regarded as dishonest according to those standards . |
| 28 | The court did not say why the test changed from " ordinary decent people " to " reasonable and honest people " : are honest people different from ordinary ones ? |
| 29 | After all shoplifting is dishonest according to current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 30 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |