Example sentences of "by men [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 2 | It shows the decline in economic activity by men over school leaving age from 88% in 1951 to 77% in 1981 . |
| 3 | In their historical analyses of the development of scientific medicine , feminists have shown how women as the natural ( but necessarily unqualified ) healers and carers of the sick were displaced by men through a misogynist alliance of Church , state and universities after centuries of struggle ( Ehrenreich and English 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The Common Cause , reporting a case of the wrongful arrest of a woman for alleged prostitution , commented that the suspect was ‘ taken to a man 's court , tried and sentenced by men under men 's laws for a fault she can not commit alone ’ . |
| 5 | He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’ |
| 6 | Hic Mulier is not only shameless but , as Sandra Clark has recently pointed out , she suggests that shame itself ‘ is a concept framed by men to subordinate women to the dictates of arbitrary custom ’ ( ‘ Controversy ’ , 175 ) . |
| 7 | The three vices which he hated most , according to Isaacson , were usury , simony and sacrilege ; and he suffered much through suits brought against him by men to whom he had refused livings . |
| 8 | I meant only that this is a matter of your will , and ought to be seen by men to be carried out in your name and at your direction . |
| 9 | Some of the most accomplished yelling was conducted by men for whom the only college worth getting in a strop over was of the electoral variety . |
| 10 | Shainess ( 1970 ) criticizes work on women 's psychology done by men for serving male interests , and wants women to do more in this field . |
| 11 | The scheme was devised by men for men , since no women civil servants were at that time employed ( Rhodes , 1965 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | Life was a game like tennis , set up by men for men to win with powerful serves she would never be able to return . |
| 13 | They went through the house like so many screaming wheelbarrows , soon to be silenced by men with sharp knives and rubber aprons and boots that did not slip on the bloodied floor . |
| 14 | Many of the photo-opportunities were staged by men with stunted imaginations . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're cunning animals but they 're used to being hunted by leopards , not by men with guns . |
| 16 | The torches blazed upon tall tasselled banners , and lit robes of white and scarlet and gold , borne by men with innocent faces . |
| 17 | For this purpose a hedge and dyke were built and kept in repair to make a large enclosure into which deer were driven by men with hounds and horns . |
| 18 | Protest music made by men with beards for people with fuzzy minds and books in the glove compartments of their Morris Travellers . |
| 19 | The fact that it is made by men with no faces and only two fingers each merely makes it all the more remarkable . |
| 20 | Overseas expansion was often led by men with no clear instructions or with instructions that they ignored , but the Spanish conquistadores like Cortes and Pizzaro took this further than most . |
| 21 | He allowed himself to be hustled into the background of affairs by men with narrower views and nearer objectives . " |
| 22 | Indeed , of the category of " male part-timers " , 40 per cent are accounted for by men with temporary jobs , of whom the large majority ( 78 per cent ) are in seasonal , temporary or casual jobs . |
| 23 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 24 | She felt suddenly more secure despite the fact that she was flanked by men with knives . |
| 25 | Then again , history was never written by men with electric guitars before — we are , for the sake of argument ignoring George Bush performing ‘ Barbara Ann ’ with the Beach Boys and General Noriega 's much admired Elvis medley . |
| 26 | SIS between the wars was a small , underfunded , foreign intelligence agency , staffed mainly by men with a service background . |
| 27 | So why , then , are we so eager to inform every other driver on the road that Surfboarders Do It Standing Up , or that Rugby Is Played By Men With Odd-shaped Balls ? |
| 28 | Then again , history was never written by men with electric guitars before — we are , for the sake of argument ignoring George Bush performing ‘ Barbara Ann ’ with the Beach Boys and General Noriega 's much admired Elvis medley . |
| 29 | Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on . |
| 30 | Comics are mostly by men with a masculine audience in mind . |