Example sentences of "[adj] men [vb mod] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 2 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 3 | If stationary men would pay more attention to the districts on which they reside … from such materials might be drawn the most complete county histories . |
| 4 | About two thirds of the men but less than half of the women answered " yes " to the question , " Do you think that young men should have some sexual experience before marriage ? " — a slightly larger figure than that of those claiming such experience — while a quarter of the men and half of the women replied , " no " . |
| 5 | ‘ Other men can resent that . ’ |