Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [adj] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 2 | Only 12 of the 268 men who became free through completing an apprenticeship or by purchase were born in York . |
| 3 | But some of the other men supported the Tibetan : within his own home Kalchu was responsible for his dog 's behaviour . |
| 4 | I 'd heard some of the other men in the village mention the possibility of a game reserve for tourists , and I held my breath , wondering if Kalchu was going to implicate me , as they had done . |
| 5 | Some of the other men were worrying , expressing doubts about the weather , wondering if the hunt should be postponed . |
| 6 | As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms . |
| 7 | Some of the other men had been busy , tying together ropes and halters to make a long leash . |
| 8 | Some of the other men are allowed to work outside in the grounds of the prison , as you wilt see . |
| 9 | Unlike some of the young men attracted into Minton 's orbit , Bobby had a liveliness and curiosity that enabled him to respond and he was soon reading some of the American and Russian authors Minton admired . |
| 10 | Some of the aged men and women in the sick wards had difficulty in digesting the suet pudding which was the prescribed house diet for dinner on Friday . |
| 11 | She had lost her virginity when she was ten , so she told us , and she was popular with some of the Spanish men who would perch her on their knees and allow her to fondle their private parts as a joke . |
| 12 | The woman showed her a bundle of tiny packages , secret notes , from some of the disappeared men , smuggled out of their secret jail by one of the guards . |
| 13 | Some of the wise men say it is not painting , some of them say it is . |
| 14 | Many M16 officers made no pretence at co-operation as a desirable aim , instilling in some of the newer men a conviction that M15 saw its main purpose to encroach on M16 domains , and suggesting that all such moves should be pre-empted . |
| 15 | When the council threatened to raise the rents some of the local men started arguing about it in a local pub . |
| 16 | So when Else read this out 'e said that some of the 'oly men in the olden days never washed at all , and were crawling with lice . |
| 17 | The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo . |
| 18 | In 1988 , Mr Ken Hutchinson , one of the churchwardens , said that this year they had put forward some of the younger men of the parish in order to keep interest in the tradition alive , though there was no lack of interest at present and the schoolroom was certainly packed full . |
| 19 | We 've taken the issue up on a number of occasions and some of the younger men agree that perhaps things should change , but the older ones are adamant about what they regard as women 's work . |
| 20 | Arghatun and some of the younger men jeered at him . |
| 21 | Back at the village we were invited to join the chief and some of the older men for a drink of maize beer . |
| 22 | The fee-payers disappeared , and some of the older men were still lamenting this in 1962 . |
| 23 | Some of the older men began moving the children aside , giving instructions and taking control . |
| 24 | Some of the older men are also alarmed at what they see as a move away from conciliatory enforcement . |
| 25 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 26 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 27 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 28 | He had persuasive ways with some of the poorer countries and he had , he thought , the backing of some of the big men in Formula One . |
| 29 | While Monty presided over drafting sessions designed to present the most cogent arguments against the government 's consultative document , and to eradicate the violence of language frequently suggested by some of the medical men , my principal role was to sound the government , and especially Barbara Castle , about the possibilities of a compromise solution . |
| 30 | This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject . |