Example sentences of "[art] [adj] man or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 2 | Adrian Jones of Laser … says its easy to sail … its not for the beginner but the club sailor will be able to handle it … he says it gives the opportunity for the normal man or girl in the street to sail together in a powerful boat … all the boats will be exactly the same … it means that the best sailor will win … |
| 3 | P. E. ‘ Bucks ’ was the ordinary police talk for the working man or yobbo — the unruly kind of person that hung round street corners . |
| 4 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 5 | Although femininity in a man or masculinity in a woman may accompany homosexuality rather than heterosexuality ( and it is doubtful whether we can be sure on this point ) , the homosexual man or woman can occupy any point on the masculine-feminine scale , just as may the heterosexual individual . |
| 6 | It does not comprehend that the case for the co-operative form is its respect for the individual man or woman , a respect that is intrinsic to the form because the mainstay of its structure is equality of esteem . |
| 7 | Presenting the average man or woman in the street with medical knowledge does not turn them into cases of Munchausen 's syndrome : if it did , the problem would be far more widespread . |
| 8 | It relates to the average man or woman and no one can say whether an individual plaintiff is that average man or woman . |
| 9 | If a policeman could be so well endowed with it , despite the obvious difficulties and frustrations of his profession , the ordinary man or woman would surely be brimming over with a joke or two no matter what the occasion . |
| 10 | At last , a sensible coupe with terrific looks and a main car-maker 's badge to make it acceptable to the company accountant and accessible to the ordinary man or woman . |
| 11 | One of the results is that synods have become the happy hunting ground of activists of one kind or another , and thus have become removed from the concerns of the ordinary man or woman in the pews . |
| 12 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 13 | It is quite possible and not unusual for the transsexual man or woman to marry and have children . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bagehot 's magic depends upon the fact that the common man or woman remains just that ; he or she can not , except by the most exceptional marriage , become part of the royal family . |
| 16 | Life 's never easy for the single man or woman , is it ? |
| 17 | The young man or woman may become involved in love affairs which are happy or unhappy and each such relationship will have a dramatic effect . |
| 18 | The young man or woman sings along with the song again again , putting their head back as they do so . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 2 To show that these products are up to date and invaluable to the modern man or woman . |
| 21 | To save even the meanest man or woman alive I 'd get rid of the whole Sistine Chapel ! |
| 22 | The crunch is money — and I 've never met a rich man or woman yet who did n't have wonderfully imaginative , sophisticated , ways to justify hoarding yet a little more and a little more . |
| 23 | His flashes of brilliance make one want to leap up and cheer : ‘ No English man or woman could play Antony and Cleopatra : passion and love are quite beyond them , they could never discard their suburban subservience . |
| 24 | Your challenge was to encounter a dying man or child , the victim of an accident , and to have the presence of mind to rescue his soul , in a terrible elevation to sacred power , by the formula of baptism . |
| 25 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 26 | ‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life . |
| 27 | A believing man or woman in such circumstances is not bound ’ ( 1 Cor. |
| 28 | ‘ If a black man or woman made a film about that it would come out totally different . |
| 29 | Theirs was not the insecurity of peasants , at the mercy of periodic — and to be honest , often more murderous — catastrophes such as drought and famine , but capable of predicting with some accuracy how a poor man or woman would spend most days of their lives from birth to the graveyard . |
| 30 | By fifty a married man or woman was as likely as not to have suffered widowhood , and would have already lost half his or her contemporaries : in contrast to a mere twentieth today . |