Example sentences of "[noun] man [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 2 | It is hard , however , to gauge the effect man 's demand on the woodland had on the landscape at this time . |
| 3 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 4 | Again , the playwright plays the role , albeit true life role , of the thinking man 's condemnation of mental handicap . |
| 5 | They took this idea to BBS , a new production company formed by Bob Rafelson , Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner ( thus BBS — Bob , Bert and Steve ) to produce intelligent low-budget pictures — the thinking man 's Roger Corman movies , someone said . |
| 6 | The Smiths , yeah , they are a thinking man 's band . |
| 7 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle by Mitchell Symons |
| 8 | A thinking man 's favourite tabloid tattle |
| 9 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 10 | The thinking man 's favourite pop group ’ . |
| 11 | However , I did n't think that the descriptions of Colin Ward and Sarah Baxter ( ‘ Chip butties and crème de menthe consumed to the accompaniment of the Beautiful South ’ and ‘ The thinking man 's Jaci Stephen ’ ) bore even the slightest relation to the truth , or were in kulcher-babble , come to that . |
| 12 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 13 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 14 | How much longer can I continue to be the thinking man 's Busby ? |
| 15 | the thinking man 's cam cowboy 's sandwich ham , jam and spam wrapped round a wagon wheel |
| 16 | In other words man 's life was not really affected except for the possible lack of sex which I have mentioned whereas woman was reduced to eating and sleeping and also probably knitting little woolly jumpers and hats and gloves and scarfs and trousers . |
| 17 | Clockwise from top left An early 20th-century papier-maché lion which growls at the tug of a metal ring ; a late 19th-century version of Happy Families ; tin soldiers perpetually fighting the Battle of Waterloo ; a heads-and-bodies-and-tails book in which the metamorphoses are part of a story ; a cottager 's doll from a village antiques shop ; a fish pond in which the lines are baited with a magnet ; a zoetrope , which reveals a series of moving images as the drum revolves ; a tin man c.1910 who raises his hat when you pull his string . |
| 18 | She eased herself out from under the duvet , reaching for her heavy wool man 's dressing gown and tying it firmly around her , crossed to the window . |
| 19 | TAPE MAN 'S GREED |
| 20 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 21 | His son , Jared , attended the academy and is now a student at Stanford University in California , where he won the National Australian Collegiate Athletic Association men 's singles championship this spring . |
| 22 | Harriers , after two seasons in the Surrey Men 's Cross-Country League second division , had finished for the first time in the top half — fourth , with the first division in their sights . |
| 23 | One group of people consider fishing men 's work and weaving women 's , while two hundred miles away it is women who fish and men who weave . |
| 24 | The head of a smart high-street men 's shop attempted to tell me why corduroys are superior to blue jeans . |
| 25 | FENCING Men 's team epee final : Germany bt Hungary 8-4 . |
| 26 | Valibus won at Hackwood last year and is entered for both the Volvo Men 's Open and the Confined Race . |
| 27 | Jonathon Hymas of Stafford continued his domination of the Dacorum men 's squash despite the finest efforts of young pretender Robert Hensley , a student from Dartford . |
| 28 | The monkey in a waistcoat was on a chain attached to the dancing man 's belt . |
| 29 | But as the individualist man 's machine ticked over at idling speed , in desperate need of a new surge of power and aware that the world 's supply of oil had nearly run out , the collectivist machine was doing no better . |
| 30 | ginger bread man er |