Example sentences of "man and [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TELEPHONE sweethearts Heather Shannon and Chris Fereday became man and wife at the weekend after a whirlwind romance started by chance . |
| 2 | It proves you spent at least three weekends together as man and wife in the Cotswolds . |
| 3 | She 's one of the ‘ one partner for life ’ brigade , man and wife in the eyes of God forever and ever a-bloody-men . |
| 4 | In another Latin poem , for instance , called Mansus , written to a distinguished old man and patron of the arts , that he met in Italy , Giovanni Battista Manso , a friend of Tasso and Marini , Milton hopes that he too in his turn may find such a good friend and patron . |
| 5 | What they lacked was Mr Pozsgay 's eloquence , access to the media and the ability to relate these lofty ideas to the man and woman in the street . |
| 6 | The man and woman in the Garden were not free from God 's demands . |
| 7 | A man and woman in the car died as it was crushed under the lorry . |
| 8 | It is estimated that up to one million Americans invested in shares — from millionaires to the ordinary man and woman in the street . |
| 9 | The Commission is outside a sensible structure of democratic accountability and has shown a tendency to impose a Euro-synthesis at micro-level — silly proposals for the nooks and crannies of our life that antagonise the man and woman in the street . |
| 10 | Since those heady early days of privatisation , the world of high finance has become far more accessible to the ordinary man and woman in the street . |
| 11 | Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter . |
| 12 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 13 | In the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday Palestinian gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli man and woman near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba . |
| 14 | The second march , on 27 December , organized by the Crusade , was calculated to have brought 90,000 men and women onto the streets , although again numbers have been hugely exaggerated . |
| 15 | This is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in the world in attempting to establish equality between men and women as the rule in marriage . |
| 16 | Massive and beautifully-designed trophies were awarded to the top three men and women as the personal gifts given by the king , the princes and the princesses respectively . |
| 17 | Because these five women — with their beautifully made-up , famous faces are the nucleus of Parents for Safe Food , a group founded by celebrities to voice the concerns of an increasing number of men and women about the pesticides and herbicides making their way onto our plates . |
| 18 | In the words of the 1911 Manifesto of the National Council of Public Morals , an influential campaigning force , the solution to national immorality lay in educating young men and women into the physiological knowledge and lofty ideals of marriage . |
| 19 | You are meant to follow in the wake of the stylised men and women with the Pentel pens on Monday 23 October , while design students only will be welcomed on the Tuesday . |
| 20 | Under these Acts , and with only minor exceptions , employers , educational establishments , and those who provide goods , facilities and services to the public ( e.g. banks , building societies , finance houses , and landlords ) commit a civil offence if they do not provide men and women with the same opportunities and services . |
| 21 | Then , in an industry that considers two-colour calling cards flashy , it was hard not to notice the earnest young men and women with the L Ron Hubbard given mission to evangelise about Dianetics , or stunt rider Eddie Kidd , who is carrying self-confidence to the point of leap-frogging his motor cycle clear across the Great Wall of China . |
| 22 | We pray that you will raise up men and women with the skills to assist them , and give them the care that they need . |
| 23 | It is a sign that ordinary men and women at the workface of wealth-creation are appalled at the notion of a return to state intervention . |
| 24 | It was divided into its own hierarchies , the commercial sector of small-scale business men and women at the top , the beggars at the bottom . |
| 25 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 26 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 27 | Management education can be broadly defined as being predominantly concerned with the training of men and women for the higher-level supervisory and decision-taking posts . |
| 28 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 29 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
| 30 | In time of war , the men and women of the Territorial Army make up about one-third of the Army , providing more than half the infantry needed in BAOR and over sixty per cent of the Army 's medical services . |