Example sentences of "the man in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 2 | She did n't , but in the morning as she snapped off the alarm , anxious not to wake Rodney , she saw that the man in the next bed was not Rodney , nor was he asleep . |
| 3 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 4 | Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide . |
| 5 | ‘ Bring your wheelbarrow ! ’ yells the man in the white cap merrily . |
| 6 | But there are other differences between the government frontbench and the man in the wings . |
| 7 | But the man in the street will say : how can it get worse ? |
| 8 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 9 | The man in the row in front arches backwards over his seat , his breath sucked in through clenched teeth . |
| 10 | Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ . |
| 11 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 12 | We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . |
| 13 | ‘ You connected this call with the man in the car ? ’ |
| 14 | She 's holding up this straw hat — a bit like the one in the picture on my wall — you know , the one with the man in the boat . |
| 15 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 16 | To the Burmese he is ‘ Malm Sow ’ , the man in the white cassock who serves the ‘ bearded God ’ , Jesus Christ . |
| 17 | Where Whisky Galore ( 1948 , Tight Little Island in US ) depicts a Scottish community determined to outwit officialdom and salvage the whisky from a shipwrecked boat , The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ) treads into that tricky area for British filmmakers , industrial relations , to suggest that when workers and management come together , it may have more to do with their own selfish interests than those of the broader community . |
| 18 | Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness in a quiet scene from The Man in the White suit ( 1951 ) |
| 19 | Several Hong Kong businessmen question the price , and an opinion poll last month found that the man in the Hong Kong street also had his doubts . |
| 20 | The intricacies of financial litigation are , however , of less interest to the man in the Manila street than the renaissance of Danding Cojuangco . |
| 21 | The man in the garden centre will say you want rye grass . |
| 22 | That must be the man in the photograph in Mrs Wright 's bedroom . |
| 23 | ‘ Must be frustrated lust , ’ he quipped to the man in the next bed . |
| 24 | The man in the poems . ’ |
| 25 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 26 | Dot managed to wriggle past and down the stairs , and there in the basement room sat the man in the drab , illfitting , demob suit . |
| 27 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 28 | ( I was well aware that the man in the bushes was not Mrs Browning 's only worry , and that she lived on interest from a small amount of capital fast diminishing in value . |
| 29 | Here , like the man in the Garden when the prohibition was delivered , or Cain when his offering was rejected , he receives no explanation at all . |
| 30 | If he regards Isaac as his own and not God 's , as the woman and the man in the Garden came to regard that tree as their own and not God 's , then all will be ruined . |