Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of men [unc] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to belittle the role of the superstructure and the importance of studying that side of men 's relations in commodity economy ; but investigation does not begin with the superstructure .
2 Prostitution was the direct result of men 's immorality , creating an outcast class of women tacitly sanctioned by church and state .
3 But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids .
4 Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 .
5 Damp wool and gaberdine in their nostrils , wide dark shoulders of men 's coats looming above them , their noses pressed against foreign backs .
6 In 1980 , women earned on average 81% of men 's wages in manufacturing .
7 Yes do we have much idea of men 's perception of women in the play .
8 But is this the inevitable consequence of men 's continued economic dominance , or the failure of our divorce legislation to give men their due ?
9 Well , their pay is three quarters of men 's pay .
10 I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size .
11 She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’
12 The rival powers of men 's tennis — the International Tennis Federation and the Association of Tennis Professionals — have come to an agreement over umpiring at the Australian Open .
13 87 per cent of grooms now choose to wear a wedding ring and with the Beaverbrooks extensive collection of men 's rings including rings to match the bride 's he 'll be spoilt for choice .
14 Certainly , yet also a ruthlessly accomplished observer of men 's and women 's foibles .
15 Then the silence was broken by the sound of metal on metal at the far end of the Cages and of a gate being opened , followed by the heavy remorseless tread of Men 's feet .
16 She seemed quite unfazed by Billingsley 's impertinent question whether we slept together , doubtless translating the policeman 's particular curiosity as a general confirmation of men 's innate tackiness .
17 The former , while fitting in with much of popular ideology , is contradicted by current sociological studies of men 's violence ; the latter is more consistent with the evidence of this research .
18 over the doughty growth of men 's savings
19 If the lodging house was the bottom line of men 's poverty then , what is women 's today ?
20 ‘ It was necessary to explore , to the utmost , pain and cruelty and the dark secret yearning of men 's souls , ’ he said .
21 There were heads , arms , feet , and other pieces of men 's bodies everywhere .
22 And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties .
23 The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed .
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