Example sentences of "man [conj] [noun] [pron] " 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 | ‘ There is no man or devil who will stop me from going to the home of my family , ’ said Sir Henry angrily . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Danakil invariably castrated any man or boy whom they killed or wounded , removing both the penis and the scrotum . |
| 5 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 6 | A man or woman whose social or personal habits are unconventional or uncertain is not likely to be risked . |
| 7 | The man or woman whose marriage is a mess , who seeks a more loving relationship with a succession of lovers , but who can never bring themselves either to leave or be honest with their partner , is caught in a cycle of small deaths with no hope of life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Out there , somewhere , is a man or woman who callously stabbed that young maid to death . |
| 11 | The man or woman who has been made redundant may begin to feel that life is all but over . |
| 12 | Perhaps money could be offered to any man or woman who volunteers to be sterilised ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | A move from consensus management , where a small , but arguably representative nucleus of people had at least some say in the decision-making , to a more dictatorial style known as ‘ general management ’ now means that decisions are made by one man or woman who may accept or reject the advice of interested parties , including nursing and medical advisers . |
| 16 | These understandable human reactions have to be channelled against the waffler , and the apple polisher : the man or woman who by verbal skills seeks to evade taking a position , or even in some cases actually saying anything at all . |
| 17 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 18 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 19 | The man or woman who is used to referring to the female sexual organ as a cunt will not be comfortable or confident in talking about the vulva or the vagina . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A man or woman who dies without making a will is intestate . |
| 22 | ‘ The Army provides excellent training for a young man or woman who wants to be a caterer , particularly a military caterer , ’ said Colonel Wilkinson . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themselves involved in a holiday romance . |
| 26 | You wo n't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance . |
| 27 | Your council occasionally suffers comments about the age of some of its members but the fact remains that to a man or woman your council members are current sailors or actively involved in the sport and this must be good for sport . |
| 28 | But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world . |
| 29 | The mist moved on , and each man and eagle there was turned to stone and raised up . |
| 30 | This is the sort of relationship between man and animal which westerners find hard to accept : the use of a monkey as a fly-swat . |