adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ordinary citizen ( also a regular citizen American English )
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The government is not aware of the views of ordinary citizens.
an ordinary individual
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Ordinary individuals need no more than 3–5 grams of salt per day.
average/typical/ordinary punter
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The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
in the normal/ordinary course of sth
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His bravery was far more than was required in the normal course of duty.
Ordinary level
ordinary seaman
ordinary shares
ordinary/everyday clothes
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Everyone else was wearing ordinary clothes.
the ordinary meaning
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They are a 'nuisance' in the ordinary meaning, not the legal meaning, of that word.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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That is, her face wasn't as ordinary as her dress.
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We managed to insert it into the schools: conflict resolution becomes as ordinary as brushing your teeth.
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He eventually resigned as ordinary in November 1727.
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I called, got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was.
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Not one of them could be described as ordinary .
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The door appears as ordinary dark wood door at first sight, with a pair of brass doorknobs.
most
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It is camaraderie on the most ordinary level.
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Her exceptional goodness in executing the humblest and most ordinary of tasks fired the imagination of Catholics everywhere.
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However, some of the most formidable-looking questions can be the most ordinary and helpful titles. 1.
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Mitchell needed now to see her perform the most ordinary habits.
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But most ordinary citizens - buffeted by price rises and aware of worsening poverty in the slums - remain unimpressed.
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Thus our work assumes a kind of holiness that permeates even the most ordinary of everyday activities.
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The man with the feather brush is indispensable in the highest ceremonials, and is present on the most ordinary occasions.
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Race, relegated to the periphery, can intrude into the most ordinary evening out.
quite
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She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.
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In fact, she is quite ordinary .
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In terms of physics it is quite ordinary , but in terms of its usefulness to people on Earth it is unique.
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Here is the problem: much of ordinary life appears quite ordinary and remote from the power centres of the world.
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Here again, there are many quite ordinary terms for the internal parts of discourse types.
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Even things which looked quite ordinary turned out to be interesting when Dad told you about them.
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Even quite ordinary forms of stress can have an exaggerated effect on an irritable bowel.
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When confident, few drivers were in his ultimate class, technically; when unconfident, he could be quite ordinary .
so
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But he's so ordinary that he's extraordinary.
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Everything looked so ordinary , but only for the moment and only as far as I could see.
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He seemed so ordinary , so harmless.
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Incidentally Nu, which looks so ordinary , is still more luminous and still more remote.
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He was so interested in life and so well-informed and so inquisitive about everything and so ordinary in many respects.
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Adamus used a key, something so ordinary .
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Water to you and me is so ordinary .
very
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In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
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They just seemed very ordinary and very dull and boring people.
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It was, after all, a very ordinary murder.
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Lilianenot a very ordinary name, I think.
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We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task.
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The Seahawks have been a very ordinary franchise every since.
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If you take away the image all that's left is a bunch of exceptionally pretty boys making some very ordinary music.
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Woodforde was a very ordinary man.
■ NOUN
business
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The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company.
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All the ordinary business of life stopped.
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They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery.
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They were most sacred days, when much of the ordinary business of life was suspended.
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They would include, for example, small charities and pension funds, unless the trustees are themselves ordinary business investors.
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The L.T.E.'s basic obligation was to run its operations on ordinary business principles, which the fare reduction contravened.
citizen
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The unpaid volunteers will not wear uniforms and will not have any special powers over and above those of ordinary citizens .
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They passed legislation that often made it impossible for ordinary citizens to sue for their injuries.
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The fact of production and the images presented have strong economic implications for the film and television industry and the ordinary citizen .
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Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
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When the Senate adopts a measure by 100 votes to none, the ordinary citizen should count the spoons.
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But his main ploy was to portray Weld as a friend of the rich eager to reduce educational opportunities for ordinary citizens .
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They are the ordinary citizens for whom the honours system was designed - people who have dedicated their lives to duty.
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Together leaders and ordinary citizens produced widely differing evaluations.
course
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Target business to be run in ordinary course up to completion with no material changes in trading performance or net assets.
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Workers have become expendable parts for sale in the ordinary course of commerce.
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Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
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In the ordinary course of everyday living we are immersed completely in the personality.
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It was in fact made without protest and in the ordinary course of customs business.
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It is sufficient that he was acting within the ordinary course of business of mercantile agents generally.
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However, although it will not be accepted, it will not in the ordinary course of events be anticipated.
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In the ordinary course of banking the victim gets the cheque back but after encashment.
language
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It is good because it is written in friendly, ordinary language and where jargon creeps in, it is explained.
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The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service.
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What this meant in ordinary language was that only those who subscribed to Francoist ideals would be remembered and honoured.
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So once again the emphasis is not on poetry in itself, but on the difference between poetry and ordinary language .
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The third aspect of ordinary language which is violated by poetry is semantics.
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Reality is at his disposal in the same way that ordinary language and the current literary conventions and devices are.
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But it works the same way as ordinary language .
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In order to participate in ordinary language usage, one must be able to make such calculations, both in production and interpretation.
life
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The collection of texts, songs, refrains and acclamations brings Holy Week and Easter vividly and fruitfully into ordinary lives .
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Most of these memories, these scenes of ordinary life , came to me from Katherine, who still lives in Denver.
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The impact of war on ordinary lives was beginning to create the conditions for a mass peace movement.
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Afterwards, ordinary life seems unimportant: business; politics; all the things people get worked up about: unimportant.
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Jenny Wilson was an ordinary woman, leading an ordinary life , had an ordinary job in an ordinary town.
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In our ordinary life this truth is hidden from us or only dimly glimpsed at times or imperfectly held and conceived.
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Any revolutionary aspirations of the younger members are centred on gaining work and admittance to the mainstream of ordinary life .
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This is the setup for a small movie about small moments in an ordinary life .
man
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Fortunately the dogged good sense of the ordinary man is far from dead.
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But what about the ordinary man himself?
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Diana had married no ordinary man .
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This chapter will deal with the first question: What does the ordinary man think he should do?
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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
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If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
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Woodforde was a very ordinary man .
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The political behavior of ordinary men and women is seldom analyzed using explicit, personality-based approaches.
member
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My own aspirations are more lowly - I am just an ordinary member .
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But they were no ordinary members of the Washington press corps.
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The Association is eager to recruit more shareholders and ordinary members to facilitate this.
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He remained an ordinary member of Legco.
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I am not alone in this stage of limbo, for none of the other ordinary members of the committee knows either.
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The bondholders elected their committee representatives, i.e. eight bondholders to the Club's four ordinary members .
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However, the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25.
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The chairman historically was a person who had served on the tribunal as an ordinary member for some time.
mortal
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Lords, ladies, dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means.
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She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
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However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals .
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This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
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This to ordinary mortals seems quite inaccessible but it has been climbed, the first ascent being in 1967.
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An ordinary mortal named Zeuxis had set up his easel to portray the family group.
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Artists are terribly difficult people for us ordinary mortals to deal with.
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He reckons wise men don't need to bother much with the truth as far as ordinary mortals are concerned.
people
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But, we know surprisingly little of a systematic nature about what ordinary people nowadays think of the subject.
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The movie is strongest when Lee keeps his eye on the prize: the experiences of ordinary people in an extraordinary time.
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But three ordinary people with very different lifestyles are about to display theirs in public.
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Could an interface be designed so that ordinary people could use it?
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These inventories, therefore, give a sound idea of the standard of living of thousands of ordinary people .
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But how to convince ordinary people that this was so?
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Announcing a change in policy, Idris Wakil said that from now on what ordinary people did should make the news.
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Ford made the automobile affordable for ordinary people , and they bought it in incredible numbers.
person
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No ordinary person wants them any more, though they will for years to come provide talking points for the chattering classes.
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I provide the example of the country lawyer who has won big for the ordinary person .
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Ken Kessler is an ordinary person trying to get by in the information age.
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The rich guys can get elected on their money, but somebody like me, an ordinary person , needs the party.
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It would certainly create more work for the lawyers but would not add a great deal of protection for the ordinary person .
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The local paper gives the ordinary person a voice.
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The ordinary person does not inherently dislike work: according to the conditions it may be a source of satisfaction or punishment.
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Nevertheless, an ordinary person might be hard put to tell one from the other.
school
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This number sequence is frequently used in mathematical investigations in ordinary schools .
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More than 1,000 pupils go to ordinary schools , after assessments from the five area boards.
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Approximately 20 percent of elementary school age children were attending 2,000 ordinary schools by 1933.
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Amongst the general population of children in ordinary schools , about a sixth have special educational needs of one kind or another.
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A much higher proportion of special schools offer boarding facilities than ordinary schools, especially those run by voluntary organisations.
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Conrad's figure excludes those placed in ordinary schools .
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It was not necessary for a boy to be musical; in addition to the choirboys there was an ordinary school .
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With Herbert's support, John seems to have applied that principle to his own education, even in an ordinary school .
sense
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Cobras do not hear in the ordinary sense as they have no extended ears.
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Not through the medium of the brain and nervous system and the ordinary sense organs.
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It will not be a Coalition in the ordinary sense of the term but a co-operation of individuals. 3.
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Well, yes, but not in any ordinary sense .
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We shall be using the term in the ordinary sense , without, we hope, any fear of being misunderstood.
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And its author certainly shows himself to be bright enough, in every ordinary sense .
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This computer has no machine code instruction set or data formats in the ordinary sense .
share
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The convertibles swap into Caird ordinary shares at 535p, compared to a share price of 479p, down 12p, yesterday.
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Forte has 949 million ordinary shares outstanding.
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An interim dividend of 6p per ordinary share was paid on 1 April 1993 in respect of the year ending 31 December 1993.
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The Directors propose to offer ordinary shareholders the opportunity to receive fully paid ordinary shares in the Company in lieu of the cash dividend.
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It requests that an authority for market purchases should not normally exceed 10 percent of the company's issued ordinary share capital.
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Sketchley requires you to hold 300 ordinary shares , costing about £3.71 each, to qualify for its discount.
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The ordinary shares at 564p yield 7.5%.
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The capital structure is simple, with only ordinary shares in issue.
way
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The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted.
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Oh, I mean ordinary in ordinary ways , he said, flushing.
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The parcel is then sent, bearing this label, in the ordinary way but without payment being made at the counter.
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And I wondered if she was right, if Clarisa was losing her last inclination to do things the ordinary way .
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Mining operations on new sites require planning permission in the ordinary way .
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Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways .
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But in the ordinary way we shouldn't expect to, of course, he isn't a writing man.
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Such men are where they are because they are in touch in more than the ordinary way with humanity and its concerns.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lesser/ordinary/mere mortals
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A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals .
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And together we were emphatically co-operative that neighbouring forces were populated by lesser mortals .
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However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals .
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Lords, ladies, dukes and duchesses figure prominently among the names as well as more ordinary mortals of obviously substantial means.
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Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
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She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
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This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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ordinary household items
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an ordinary workday
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Can you get connected to the Internet through an ordinary telephone line?
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Gillman's known for her photographs of ordinary household items.
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He wore an ordinary business suit with a white shirt and tie.
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Housing prices in New York are out of reach for ordinary people.
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I thought it was a pretty ordinary performance.
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It's just an ordinary house in an ordinary street.
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It's surprising that a girl as attractive as Sarah is going out with someone so ordinary looking.
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She was a serious young woman, rather ordinary in appearance.
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The house was clean and well kept, but very ordinary .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I am just an ordinary girl, with ordinary parents and went to an ordinary school with 2,000 other kids.
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But, for Ricardo, the system survived not because it served the ordinary man.
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Clearly selling a second-hand car without an ignition key or registration document would not be acting in the ordinary course of business.
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He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting.
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It's a small, ordinary little village, its only claim to fame the castle, and the burial mounds.
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Never despise ordinary things - the ordinary in yourself or in others.
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The shares of ordinary insurers would be cheap.
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We are praying that very ordinary people will be called to a very special task.