Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] men [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the band constantly fighting to retain independent artistic control on a major label , the Oxbridge fops can never erase or taint the effect their original shows had on comedy and the world at large , no matter how much rich men 's folly ( children 's books , crap US film cameos , endless cash-in-books and records , the SDP ) they involve themselves in now . |
| 2 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 3 | It may well be that the sons of barons and knights jostled with Sceva and Ollo in the markets of the twelfth century ; and it is likely enough that there were more rich men 's sons than poor men 's sons wearing the alderman 's robes . |
| 4 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 5 | But there was big , it was a huge place , you know , and there were a lot of women that did really heavy men 's work , we were n't doing men 's work . |
| 6 | As a precondition to a meeting he had with de Klerk on May 8 , Nelson Mandela , the deputy president of the ANC , had insisted that the government must announce a ban on the carrying of all " dangerous " weapons , undertake to phase out single men 's hostels in the townships , and halt the use by police of " unacceptable " crowd-control measures — mainly the use of live ammunition . |
| 7 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 8 | Freud 's graded system of classification of jokes , from the crude and explicit to the refined and more abstract , implies that many of the fabliaux achieve an intriguing conflation of basic smut — in their overt expression of the dreams of masculine sexuality , with women , often other men 's wives , freely available , especially to the lover who spices his indulgence with daring and danger , and their insistence on the use of diction which is the opposite of refined — and the circumstances of the more sophisticated joke : where there is an inhibitor , he becomes the butt of the joke . |
| 9 | Paco Rabanne has had two lives in his present incarnation — that of the revolutionary 60s dress designer , and then as the name behind one of the world 's most successful men 's fragrances . |
| 10 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 11 | On The Poultry Cross side of this was The Westminster Bank , on the other facing the Market , Singer Sewing Machines , and on the same side facing Minster Street , The London and Counties Clothing Company , a rather high sounding name for a not very large Men 's Outfitters , owned and run by Mr. Selway who lived at the corner of Milford Hill/Rampart Road with his mother . |
| 12 | As the wind continues to rise it is decided to postpone the operation until it moderates — too many men 's fingers and hands at stake ! |