Example sentences of "[adj] man 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’ |
| 2 | As Berger asks , what was the old man 's relation to the girl 's baby ? |
| 3 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 4 | This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay . |
| 5 | His wife brought him , however , two books , The Plain Man 's Pathway to Heaven by Arthur Dent and The Practice of Piety by Lewis Baxley . |
| 6 | The £40,000 film a plain man 's guide to the EC is being financed with Conservative Euro cash . |
| 7 | It was natural that man 's relationship to God should have been expressed in covenant terms . |
| 8 | The lazy man 's guide to word-processing |
| 9 | The latter is the respectable man 's introduction to idolatry . |
| 10 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 11 | Later , when like a waking nightmare , the business was over and he was once again sitting in the cab , Mr Beecham leant towards him and said , ‘ If you will excuse us we will be returning straight to Newcastle , ’ and paused before adding , ‘ Sir Joseph , ’ which remark drew the young man 's attention to him . |
| 12 | BEST MAN 'S TOAST TO BRIDE AND GROOM |