Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] man [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a long time for the penny to drop with me about why I was so apparently popular in men 's organizations in the aftermath of so many women deciding to work separately . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 3 | Women were just becoming visible in men 's researches : meriting a few pages or a special chapter ( Nichols and Armstrong , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | Earlier analyses of retirement concentrate on men 's experiences , reflecting the view that both employment and the lack of it are central to men 's lives . |
| 5 | It gives rise to many of man 's anxieties and failures as well as to his often extraordinary achievements ’ ( pp. x , xi ) . |
| 6 | Conservative Members and their predecessors came out with the same sorry story that paying women acceptable wages equal to men 's wages would destroy jobs . |
| 7 | Mr Freeman said he believed in a Christian humanism which meant God was merely ‘ the sum of human aspirations ’ rather than ‘ a supernatural being intervening in man 's affairs ’ . |
| 8 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 9 | And in language which extends the representation in Scale 1 of man 's struggles against sin in terms of the Passion , Hilton says that it is the reformation in faith which enables man to carry the image of sin rather than be carried away by it : For some this reformation in faith is sufficient in itself . |
| 10 | Unless death strikes very quickly and suddenly , he creeps away to where it is proper that a proud wild beast should die — not on one of man 's rags or cushions , but in a lonely quiet place , with his muzzle pressed against the cold earth . ’ |
| 11 | God is permitted only as a verifiable divinity who gets extremely cross at man 's transgressions . |