Example sentences of "[conj] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the principle had been accepted , the main practical difficulty was seen as how to distinguish between innocent victims of assault and ‘ fraudulent and guilty ’ victims , such as criminals fighting over their spoils or men beating each other up in gang warfare . |
| 2 | For this reason , ironically , Jespersen claimed that men pause more than women . |
| 3 | It is , after all , a short time since we accepted without question the assumption that used to underline all women 's lives ; that men had more rights than we did . |
| 4 | Blackberry , the rabbit with tipped ears who had been startled by Fiver the night before , had listened carefully to Hazel 's description of the notice board , remarking that he had always felt sure that men left these things about to act as signs or messages of some kind , in the same way that rabbits left marks on runs and gaps . |
| 5 | It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing , while women remain on the lower grades . |
| 6 | But it was evident that men required this , daily , nightly ; and at least it was better than Mr Poole . |
| 7 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 8 | Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that men have much more difficulty remembering dates than women . |
| 9 | Erm , just to go back a wee bit to the thing about th the image and and the fight that we have on our hands er , to actually break into the media , I do n't , I think people underestimate the control an and er the feeling that men have that it 's their game and we 're not gon na take it away from them ! |
| 10 | If men had any hand in her movements , what I said falls to the ground , for then all is plain . |
| 11 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 12 | For the next few days Ajdabiya was extremely unsettled , and men showed all the conventional signs of being in crisis , and on the verge of further violent action . |
| 13 | Similarly the priest acts as a ‘ representative ’ to God on our behalf as human beings rather than as women or men specifically ; so it seems appropriate to have both women and men performing this representative role . |
| 14 | Whereas men talked more for function . |
| 15 | And few people ar , a couple of suggestions have come up th th th , say that it , things will only change when men actually decide they 're going to change , when men feel that 's it 's intolerable to live a society where the kind of things which have been discussed , whether it 's the th th pornography or the the various abuses of women are seen as as just not being acceptable any more . |
| 16 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 17 | The women must be changed — the skirts remain , but a redder red — the bodice must be changed — no cross garterings as men have these — head fine . |