Example sentences of "[prep] men [det] " in BNC.

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1 Tae men dat fished da Foula shaalds , a voe
2 Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike .
3 But the tide was turning , and soon the subject was enjoying a renaissance in the hands of men such as William Hamilton , George Boole , Arthur Cayley , James Sylvester and George Green , who , unprejudiced by Continental developments , began to open up whole new areas .
4 This week we publish an article by the American journalist Marsha Dubrow which demonstrates the degree to which similar enquiries would have prevented the election of men such as Lincoln , Roosevelt and John F Kennedy .
5 The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests .
6 And in the persons of men such as Bertrand du Guesclin , Sir Thomas Dagworth , Sir Robert Knolles and Sir Hugh Calveley , the lower ranks of the aristocracy asserted themselves even further .
7 Neither the interpretations nor the prognostications of men such as Lord Ashley were universally acceptable and the ‘ colonising ’ efforts were largely unsuccessful .
8 In addition to the influence of Solesmes Abbey , there was the scholarship of men such as Briggs , Frere , Palmer and Arnold , reflected in the publications of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage which made possible the recovery of plainsong for English congregations , parochial as well as religious .
9 ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King .
10 It is fair to speculate a little about what kind of men these may be .
11 In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth .
12 oh I have fun with men all the time , chasing them and that .
13 In men this results in loss of libido and reduces sperm formation and size of testes .
14 In men this factor was only related because of its association with separation .
15 After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master .
16 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon men that and his righteousness Joy be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost .
17 For men such as Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 431– c. 480 ) , the Gallo-Roman aristocrat who became bishop of Clermont , saw his inherited traditional culture as an integral part of his Roman Christianity , distancing him from the barbarian heretic .
18 Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals .
19 He shows that for men this occurs at an age somewhere in the mid-80s .
20 For men this is about 3 per cent and has remained constant .
21 The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years .
22 The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval .
23 The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval .
24 In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life .
25 THE BLUEBIRD album is a collection of singing by men most of whom could n't , strictly , sing .
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