Example sentences of "[adj] men [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The old men wore that . |
| 2 | ‘ The place was full of old men wearing thick glasses scratching around trying to find tiny pieces of paper . ’ |
| 3 | Old men retold old tales once again . |
| 4 | A further example of the assumption that women should be willing to provide sex for interested men seems implicit in the Sun headline — LANDLORD 'S DEATH LUST FOR GIRL Lodger shunned sex . |
| 5 | For example in 1983 , only 30% of unemployed men had working wives , compared with 58% of employed household heads . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nearly all the unemployed men aged 60–64 in our study mentioned the bias towards younger people in recruitment . |
| 8 | The case for following the Western example of reducing the costly standing army by building a reserve of trained men became incontrovertible . |
| 9 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 10 | Aristotle argued that the polis allowed free men to take public decisions , for the good of the citizens and not simply for the private material advantage of the most powerful . |
| 11 | In the Forest of Dean Sir John Winter paid £1,000 for the disafforestment of his extensive estates , and lesser men paid smaller sums . |
| 12 | Women who find that homosexual men make wonderful friends , may be reflecting the fact that the freedom from preoccupation with physical sex leaves the relationship wide open to a full range of shared experiences which should be enjoyed freely between heterosexual men and women too . |
| 13 | Certainly the considerable rate of detection in the anal region of high risk types of human papillomavirus along with anal intraepithelial neoplasia in immunosuppressed homosexual men warrants further attention . |
| 14 | Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . |
| 15 | Editor , — B G Evans and colleagues conclude the discussion of their paper by stating , ‘ Because of the high background prevalence of HIV-1 infection risks to homosexual men practising unsafe sex are greatest in London . ’ |
| 16 | Repeat testing of initially seronegative homosexual men showed continuing transmission of HIV-1 infection and , in London , the incidence of infection increased in 1990–1 compared with earlier years . |
| 17 | Thus , under capitalism , women 's oppression is not simply a question of individual men oppressing individual women , nor of men in general oppressing women in general ; it takes the form of exploitation in the labour market , which has become essential to maintaining capitalism — low wages , harsh working conditions , little job security — as well as exploitation in the home and family . |
| 18 | Four masked men subjected two staff at a snooker club in waterloo Street , Newcastle , to a terrifying ordeal yesterday before escaping with several hundred pounds . |
| 19 | And yet , Simple Men becomes compulsive . |
| 20 | Why did the following men have such a big impact on Parliament : Bates , Catesby , Winter , Wright , Fawkes , Percy ? |
| 21 | He toured widely but was dismayed at the corruption of public life which had arisen after the Northern victory and the Republican domination of Washington , led by men like Sumner : ‘ The rogues do public work in order to make money , and the honest men neglect public work in order to save money . |
| 22 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) suggest that by and large men have poorer relationships with their siblings than do women , and that relationships between sisters are more likely to be close and supportive . |
| 23 | The hard men came first , then the softly spoken and sympathetic type . |
| 24 | The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts . |
| 25 | ‘ White men have different customs . ’ |
| 26 | A history of imperialism and Western economic dominance has enabled white men to pursue technological progress at the expense of the so called ‘ third world ’ . |
| 27 | Most rape is done by individual men , not gangs , and by a man to a woman he knows , not a total stranger ; most rape does not involve weapons and is intra-not inter-racial , in that black men usually rape black women and white men rape white women , while rape across racial groups is unusual . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In his memoirs he reconstructed his reasoning thus : " while … the great men carried Anglo-Saxon public opinion along with them , public opinion , in its turn , in spite of wartime censorship , guided the governments . " |