This was, perhaps, his real strength, for he had an instinct, natural, unsophisticated and shrewd, for the book an ordinary reader would wish to open.

To the ordinary reader, the material may seem impenetrable.

It would be clear to the ordinary reader from the outset that it was meant seriously, and intended to convey a message of some importance.

The critic can be just as much at a loss (or mistaken) as the ordinary reader.

In consequence, he failed to conduct a realistic exploration of how the ordinary reader of the post would have understood it.

Generals feared that the ordinary soldier might refuse to continue the war.

At its best, this third instalment of the second world war action series builds on the great strengths of its predecessor, throwing your ordinary soldier into huge set-piece battles.

Once the mission would end the commander would become an ordinary soldier under the command of the new field commander for the latter's mission.

During this time, he instituted a number of reforms designed to improve the lot of the ordinary soldier.

But he also photographed the war from the viewpoint of the ordinary soldier or sailor.

They will be taxable on their worldwide income and gains, like any ordinary taxpayer.

Backed by the ordinary taxpayer, whohas little opportunity for escape, they can take on and manage debts over the long term and, hopefully, muddle through.

I wonder how much money this billionaire has squirrelled away from the ordinary taxpayer.

The new powers, detailed in last week's budget, will extend these powers even further enabling it to pursue ordinary taxpayers with renewed vigour.

Will it be bankers, bondholders or, once again, ordinary taxpayers, including you?

There have been moments when young people here lived perfectly ordinary, banal lives.

They really exist and it's perfectly ordinary to talk about it.

He said that the people lived 'in a perfectly ordinary way'.

This might seem like a perfectly ordinary activity.

How you can say goodbye to your folks on a perfectly ordinary morning, set off in your car, and never come home.

And, as ever, the seemingly ordinary can hide ghastly ghostly secrets.

It follows a seemingly ordinary night watchman who cracks up as he faces the blank, unsmiling face of the state.

Perhaps it was the strained atmosphere in the house that made her aware of the depths that lie beneath people's seemingly ordinary lives.

Here's how a normal and seemingly ordinary diet can easily push your salt servings into the danger zone.

However, you're increasingly wound up about certain seemingly ordinary arrangements and those involved.

We had supposed our lives were so utterly ordinary.

Appearing incongruously atop my previous photos - the utterly ordinary postings of a new dad - it didn't get a digital 'like' for 15 minutes.

Decent, honest, hard-working, not hugely talented and utterly, utterly ordinary?

The work describes how an utterly ordinary and worthless object becomes endowed with great significance as it occasions contact between two people who must remain enemies.