Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second time because — well , because they had been smart enough to smuggle the guns away right under the noses of the men he had posted to make sure that did n't happen . |
| 2 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 3 | Perhaps the most admirable characteristics of the Masai in the eyes of the men whose job it was to administer them were their honesty , directness , and highly developed sense of justice . |
| 4 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 5 | As the coffin was lifted up on the shoulders of the men , Carmella stood and reached out her hand to touch its wood at Joey 's shoulder . |
| 6 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 7 | The camera was set up to cover the interior of the store , and the images of the men , filmed as they walked past on the pavement outside , are not clear . |
| 8 | You have seen the television pictures and heard the words of the men from space . |
| 9 | Concealed amongst the coats , Frankie listened to the grunts of the animals and the low harsh voices of the men . |
| 10 | The Society has displayed confidence in the contributors by printing their nostalgic talk verbatim and the result is a fascinating account of the town in the earlier part of this century , through the voices of the men and women who were there at the time . |
| 11 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 12 | The engineering skills of the men attracted manufacturers of parts for motor cars . |
| 13 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 14 | To understand why the " female question " came to a head in 1910 , we need to look at Edinburgh 's competitiveness as a printing centre , in particular after the introduction of Monotype machines ; at the changing attitudes of the men in the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; and finally at the history of the 1910 dispute itself . |
| 15 | We do not have to go far to see the houses of the men of 1880 ; many of us are still living in them . |
| 16 | Men and horses were decorated with green , yellow and red silks and shields covered with gold and silverwork ; and round the horses ' necks were hung the bloodstained cloaks and trophies of the men each rider had killed . |
| 17 | The beatings happened within three hours of the men arriving at the prison on Saturday , during a recreational period when prisoners are allowed to mix with each other . |
| 18 | The shifts vary to cover all the hours of the men 's comings and goings . |
| 19 | One of the trends in military publishing over recent years has been a move away from the hardware itself towards its operational use and the personal experiences of the men in the front line . |
| 20 | They believed that it was necessary to combine the best in local community action and larger social concerns ; to bring the fragments of social and community action together , e.g. community groups , trade unions , women 's groups , etc. to work towards a vision of a new society based on a radical analysis of existing structures and the lessons and aspirations of the men and women attempting to create new structures at local level ; to stress objectives and content in education as well as methods and process . |
| 21 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 22 | Part cool technological fantasy — like the City 's macho high tec architecture ; part children 's tea party — jelly beyond ones wildest dreams ; part culinary icon — the associations of mixing bowl factory production line , and market stall symbolise the lives and concerns of the men , women and children who lived and worked at Spitalfields . |
| 23 | That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him . |
| 24 | Distraught Sandra was yesterday giving police descriptions of the men . |
| 25 | The police have only the briefest of descriptions of the men . |
| 26 | The rest of the committee support Taylor , and are suspicious of the motives of the men they have dubbed ‘ the gang of three ’ . |
| 27 | While Smyth might be right about the consequence of the Party being too heavily associated with the Church , he is wrong in reading backwards from that possible consequence to the motives of the men who debated at Presbytery . |
| 28 | As our century draws towards its close , the lives of the men and women of distinction whose careers have spanned its course take on a special significance and interest . |
| 29 | What they do not tell , however , is the human dimension of the Pacific story — the human reasons behind the staggering growth of the region , the ways in which this virtuoso performance actually affects the lives of the men , women and children of the Pacific , and the ways in which the Pacific people are different in outlook , aspirations , fears and needs from those who live beyond the Ocean . |
| 30 | This useful and sensible book is written in the belief that historians can not properly understand the dynamics of British imperial expansion without taking account of the sexual attitudes and expectations of the men who have administered British overseas possessions since the eighteenth century . |