Example sentences of "men [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 2 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 3 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 4 | And we have to remember that God always remains above the possibility of human words , even when those words are the words of inspired men or women . |
| 5 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 6 | Before Asian women began working in large numbers , their jobs were done by Asian men or white women . |
| 7 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 8 | Indeed , if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ , it would even be possible to maintain the libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature , whether it occurs in men or in women . |
| 9 | What do such men or women know ( or care ) about agriculture , forestry , field sports , immigration ( for they are immigrants themselves ) ? |
| 10 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 11 | Scotland was a state which was never burdened by excessive demands , for men or money . |
| 12 | But the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , which outlaws direct or indirect discrimination and victimisation against men or women on the grounds of sex or marital status , has a much broader scope . |
| 13 | We are regarded as either inferior men or superior animals . |
| 14 | Although they are probably sexually transmitted , they do not appear to produce much in the way of symptoms in either men or women . |
| 15 | Do you think there are any spheres which should be closed to either men or women ? |
| 16 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 17 | These new mines were large , each with 2000 men or more and with an output of about 1 000 000 tonnes of coal per year . |
| 18 | Most of the textile towns and the ports also employ some men or women in these industries . |
| 19 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 20 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 21 | Assurances were given that the tests were not designed to show that men or women are in some way ‘ better ’ than each other , but to trace and display managerial traits and aptitudes . |
| 22 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
| 23 | If you were to ask twenty men or women in the street what they should do to avoid heart disease the majority would say , ‘ take more exercise and eat margarine instead of butter . ’ |
| 24 | George I had tried , but failed , to end the pernicious practice of the purchase of commissions , which encouraged officers to recoup what they had spent by making what profit they could on clothing and feeding their men or through claiming the pay for ghost-like soldiers who existed only on the nominal rolls . |
| 25 | For men or women . |
| 26 | He was n't , she told herself , a poor judge of men or women . |
| 27 | The weather remained piercingly cold , so that whenever men or beasts had need to venture outdoors they were chilled to the bone . |
| 28 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 29 | ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ? |
| 30 | Also known as Minch Men or Blue Men of the Minch , these are evil-natured , blue-skinned mermen ( see MERMAID ) , often considered to be fallen angels . |