Example sentences of "a [noun] man [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.1 The Potential of Real Time Applications : A Computer Man 's View |
| 2 | Known as a field man par excellence , he led the Israeli assassination teams that hunted down and killed Palestinians involved in the Black September terrorist organisation in the early 1970s . |
| 3 | A field man 's practical knowledge demands instead thorough awareness of the nature and past history of any ‘ problem ’ , including the record and results of prior attempts by the agency at control . |
| 4 | Laboratory analyses often confirm a field man 's suspicions or draw his attention to pollution previously unnoticed . |
| 5 | The track itself is often obliterated and a large part of a rail man 's job is hacking ice and snow away from the points or the platforms between carriages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Smiths , yeah , they are a thinking man 's band . |
| 8 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle by Mitchell Symons |
| 9 | A thinking man 's favourite tabloid tattle |
| 10 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 11 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 12 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle |
| 13 | I think they demonstrated by their presence that here at least , there is no plank in the mind ; that a business man 's business today includes these ideological facts , includes dealing with what is in the hearts and minds of men . |
| 14 | At 23 , Cooper is ice hockey 's hottest property , a marketing man 's dream with long blond hair and a tendency towards violence . |
| 15 | No you 're a Hackney man Tru , Truna . |
| 16 | THE British Hang Gliding Association is to investigate an accident in which a Wirral man 's hang glider crashed into an 11,000 volt cable on the Great Orme , at Llandudno . |
| 17 | The majority of the vast Kazakhstan region was a no man 's land , but it formed a deep buffer zone between the populated areas of the North-Western USSR and the Mongolian deserts which gave way to the Chinese border . |
| 18 | Between lay a no man 's land with a truly puzzling flora and fauna . |
| 19 | Although the actual sentence passed by the court is out of the reach of legislators and departmental officials , sentencing policy occupies a no man 's land between territories claimed by government and the judiciary . |
| 20 | The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . |
| 21 | It was a grit man 's delight but a Lakelander 's nightmare of delicate bridging , jamming and powerful laybacking . |
| 22 | But I do think that the district auditor is beginning to be presented as a bogie man erm , waved in the faces of people in rural areas , as a sort of threat that even if the council does n't want to close your school , it might , and I think that probably is n't a very proper use of the district auditor 's image , nor of his report , and I think perhaps some direct contact with him , er to show what progress we 're making , paragraph by paragraph , and what we think of that report from December ninety-one , probably needs to be made . |
| 23 | Compare the description of her social life given by Linda Farrell , a delivery man 's wife , with that given by Margaret Nicholson , the wife of the director of a publishing firm . |
| 24 | Well we 'll be stuck into finding a finance man er , to watch the cost over the . |