normal person
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnormalandperson
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normal
adjective
uk/ˈnɔː.məl/us/ˈnɔːr.məl/
ordinary or usual; the same as would ...
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person
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofnormalandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Any sane andnormalpersonwould think that that is another ridiculous requirement.
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Whereas anormalpersoncan do it, they have to pay someone else.
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Moreover, any ordinary,normalpersonoutside who reads the clause, and particularly the subsection, will not have the faintest idea what it means.
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It is putting on someone more than anynormalpersoncan bear.
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When anormalpersonhas such sensations, he or she takes pleasure in the fact that he or she has them.
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Doctors said about him that he couldn't walk by himself and also couldn't think like anormalperson.
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I suggest that no psychologicallynormalpersoncould fail to do so.
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To anormalperson, the "existence" of each sensory given remains in the background compared to what these data "mean" to him.
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Thus, anormalpersoncan imagine without difficulty any object at any spatial point where this object is not "really" present as a sensuously graspable stimulus.
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There one finds conditions under which nonormalpersonwould hesitate to work in a colliery.
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Anynormalperson, let alone any fair person, would understand and accept immediately that the chief police officers satisfied the requirement of that paragraph.
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What happened, in fact was what thenormalpersonwould have expected—the attendances dropped.
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It does not seem to represent what anormalpersonwould want to do with his estate if he made a will.
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That is not the angle from which economists look at the problem, but that is the way in which anormalpersonwould react.
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I do not think the imagination of anynormalpersonneed be unduly strained in envisaging the situation that would then present iteslf.
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Their expenses are considerably more than those of anormalperson.
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I would say that this shows a complete lack of understanding of how anormalpersonwould react in a crisis of this nature.
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Thenormalpersonfor her to sue would have been the occupier of the factory.
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