Example sentences of "[adj] men [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't just do old men any more . |
| 2 | ‘ They are funny men these people , listen . |
| 3 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 4 | For the married men all service from the first of April nineteen seventy two counts erm for family benefits . |
| 5 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
| 6 | But I 'd seen Dick Cleave and Les Petherbridge , good men both of them , choosing to hang on at the Gazette for ever . |
| 7 | The drama will involve a cast of over ten people and include sections of talks actually preached by eminent men such as Whitefield , Wesley and others . |
| 8 | He had fasted and prayed , desperately seeking the answer to why men such as Implexion succeeded in life , at the expense of others , and noble men such as Dauntless 's peers and superiors were doomed to failure . |
| 9 | High-church men such as Gladstone and Wilberforce did indeed stick closer to the literal text of the Bible than their twentieth-century successors would ; they saw all its books as an inspired unit , ‘ Holy Scripture ’ . |
| 10 | I suppose it makes sense — it was no use flooding the post-war employment market with too many job-hunting men all at once , but we all had a terrible feeling of anti-climax . |
| 11 | Detectives say that the names include professional men such as doctors , and warn they 'll visit each person named if the men do n't come forward voluntarily . |
| 12 | It is true they did not survive unscathed and that the Bodleian Library was founded well after the Reformation , but many a manuscript discarded from the monasteries fetched up in the possession of one of the colleges , and private men such as Sir Thomas Bodley soon repaired the broken links . |
| 13 | Dai and his sons were always needing boots tapped for they were big men all of them and heavy on their feet . |
| 14 | With her trim figure , vivacious personality and love of sports Frances caught the eye of many young men that season , among them Major Ronald Ferguson , the Duchess of York 's father . |
| 15 | Nice men all but surely not the management for South Africa 's first major tour since 1981 . |
| 16 | In fact I think in in those days er it 's mostly the local men that |
| 17 | Unless subsidies were forthcoming , it was only great and favoured men such as Jean de Grilly who requested knighthood for their sons from Edward I at their own expense . |