Example sentences of "men do not " in BNC.

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1 Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing .
2 But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century .
3 These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya .
4 Men did not have this problem .
5 Men did not have a monopoly of travel , or of disguise .
6 At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff .
7 Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were .
8 In general ( see Appendix I , Table 12c ) women and men did not differ much in their attitudes to different types of credit , but women had more favourable options of mail order .
9 This was the earliest technology in which power was derived from sources other than animal muscles and the output was so obviously superior that men did not mind putting up with the inconvenience of machines which were uncomfortable or awkward to use .
10 As Liddell Hart observed , men did not ‘ feel that the enemy 's skilful resistance and the mud were the sole explanation of their fruitless sacrifice .
11 But his deputies said the UN 's men did not have a peacekeeping mandate ; they were in Bosnia only to protect aid convoys .
12 The universal outrage at the behaviour of the young men did not prevent the press publishing details of the cross-examination of the girls .
13 Men did not give the impression that their sexuality was at all vulnerable .
14 For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration .
15 Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand .
16 George Williamson and three other men did not hesitate to launch to the aid of Ralph Pottinger , even though the coastguard had advised them not to attempt a rescue , and they cast off from Scalloway Harbour at 2138 , aboard Challenge , a steel-built 36ft salmon work boat .
17 Although she did call for a fuller apprenticeship for women , Amelia McLean did not argue ( nor did anyone else ) that the Monotype made old-fashioned apprentice ships redundant , and that by a historical reversal of the usual procedure , women compositors in 1910 actually controlled a skilled process while men did not .
18 and about thirty junior men did not hold a post at all as a result of coalition .
19 The men did not understand the words , but the poetry had a soothing influence upon them .
20 Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four .
21 The local medical men did not object , but rather commended them for their cheapness .
22 She also knew that , generally speaking , good , worthy men did not look flashy and glamorous , let alone theatrical ; on the other hand , many rats were as good-looking as they were confident .
23 But the men did not hear her because the engine was making a lot of steam and noise .
24 He remembered that Suragai had said that on most worlds men did not ride , and he wondered how they managed .
25 If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help .
26 Indeed , a recent survey showed that more women than men did not receive unemployment benefit because of inadequate contributions ( Erens and Hedges , 1990 ) .
27 Middle class legislators failed to confront the fact that large numbers of industrious working class men did not earn enough to keep a wife and children .
28 By the 1890s the wives of skilled men did not usually work , for the ability to keep a wife had become a measure of working class male respectability .
29 Still men did not know what women did when they were alone together .
30 The seamen were concerned only with their ship , the revenue men did not fully understand the sea and the conflict of interests resulted in too much wasted time .
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