Example sentences of "man [conj] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 2 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 3 | An occasional man or woman who had been stabbed or beaten or strangled but who , far more often than not , had simply gone without food for a week or two , and given up . |
| 4 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themselves involved in a holiday romance . |
| 5 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance . |
| 6 | To end the list prematurely and clarify the point , the law of theft includes , in the words of that anonymous poet particularly loved by teachers of ‘ A ’ level economic history , ‘ the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common , but leaves the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose ’ . |
| 7 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 8 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 9 | The second threat is the man or woman who grabs you , not to restrain or crush you , but to keep you still while they hit you . |
| 10 | The man or woman who has been made redundant may begin to feel that life is all but over . |
| 11 | New black immigration has long ago been stopped , but any black man or woman who wants to bring dependants over , or be visited by relatives from home , is now afraid of what these people will have to suffer . |
| 12 | ‘ The Army provides excellent training for a young man or woman who wants to be a caterer , particularly a military caterer , ’ said Colonel Wilkinson . |
| 13 | A man or woman who dies without making a will is intestate . |
| 14 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 15 | Not quite so bad is the man or woman who starts a diet every Monday , is quite good until Friday , breaks out into wild eating over the weekend , and starts again on Monday . |
| 16 | Public opinion in general is turning to a more natural approach both to the environment and to health as a reaction to the increasingly mechanized view of man and society which has been developing throughout the greater part of this century . |
| 17 | If in English you reverse the positions of man and snake you change the meaning . |
| 18 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
| 19 | Then Rokovssky went back to the subject of the man and woman who lived in Newington Butts . |
| 20 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 21 | Some of the patients , especially the dying , wanted to confide in the man and woman who had eased their suffering . |
| 22 | of a man and woman who conspired to eat each other — |
| 23 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 24 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 25 | Men or women who achieved success through education , business or political office found they were expected to support a seemingly ever-growing number of relatives , especially nephews . |
| 26 | The Black Land had never condemned men or women who loved their own kind , or those who crossed the frontiers between loving those of the same and the opposite sex ; but minorities formed fraternities , and members of the clubs would do each other good turns when they could . |
| 27 | Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — |
| 28 | One is always tempted to save money by photographing locals , or the various attractive men and women one meets on holiday . |
| 29 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 30 | Many researchers ( e.g. Sharpe 1976 ; Deem 1978 ) have argued that the occupational segregation of men and women which takes place after education is completed is related to the subject segregation which takes place at school . |