Example sentences of "[adj] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old men wore that . |
| 2 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 3 | Why did the following men have such a big impact on Parliament : Bates , Catesby , Winter , Wright , Fawkes , Percy ? |
| 4 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 5 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) , for example , ( although they are generally trying to demonstrate the increasing symmetry of domestic relationships ) show that married men spent some ten hours per week on domestic tasks , compared with 23 hours for full-time and 35 hours for part-time employed women . |
| 6 | ‘ There are plenty of medical men to do that , and few to practise here , where the need is so great . ’ |
| 7 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 8 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 9 | The scene on the other side of the beaker includes two armoured men facing each other , only one is complete , wearing a helmet and sleeve-buckler , but appearing to have only a whip , while his opponent seems to be wielding a short spear ( fig. 14.15 ) . |
| 10 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 11 | The scarlet execution cart was waiting for us , the skulls of hanged men decorating each side . |
| 12 | ‘ All wealthy men have this problem , do they ? |
| 13 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 14 | During the great cycle of wars in 1689 – 1713 both Louis XIV and his English opponents employed military men to fill many of the most important diplomatic appointments , while under Napoleon I they were even more extensively used . |
| 15 | It was the prospect of finding gold that induced these excited men to make such frantic efforts to open out the barrow ’ . |
| 16 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 17 | The two young men regarded each other thoughtfully . |
| 18 | Young men make such a mess , they 're so lordly . ’ |
| 19 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 20 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 21 | And he was n't the only one that was doing this you know , my father was n't an individual just on h his own , there were other men did this sort of thing . |
| 22 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 23 | In each village and manor local men filled such offices as bailiff , and the holders of these positions were presumably the more articulate members of the community — inglorious the peasants may have been , but there is no need to regard this as synonymous with mute . |
| 24 | Only a young Jewish girl , her betrothed husband , a handful of shepherds , and a few wise men had any inkling who had arrived . |