Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [art] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bliss made the introductions , beginning with the taller of the men , both of whom wore the nondescript dark suits traditionally favoured by high-ranking police officers . |
| 2 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 3 | Even the hardest of the men there was sobered by her outburst . |
| 4 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 5 | In due course , the sludge was cleared from the colliery and the bodies of the last of the men were recovered . |
| 6 | The tallest of the men looked down at Ruth ; his hair was bright silver , and his gold eyes were like an eagle 's . |
| 7 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 8 | The menacing tone of Luke 's voice caused a few of the men at the bar to stiffen expectantly : they could sense trouble coming . |
| 9 | The problem was that equal pay was entangled with a restructuring of the work process in the Edinburgh printing trade : increasingly there was a division of labour , with certain men , and almost all the women , directed to straight typesetting , while a few of the men concentrated on the finishing processes . |
| 10 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 11 | A few of the men were pointing at him , struggling as if to go to his aid but being restrained by their companions and womenfolk . |
| 12 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 13 | And , and well I remember once there were a whi a few of the men went away to and they got over the stick , you understand what that means ? |
| 14 | A few of the men were dressed in quality suits with top hats and canes ; they moved quickly , keeping their faces to the ground . |
| 15 | That will make a few of the men stare . ’ |
| 16 | I 've spoken to every one of the men and we had that constable from Burford here asking a lot of questions . |
| 17 | Every one of the men who delivered the caravan is a Plunkett . |
| 18 | This would suggest that around 30 per cent of the " living-out " labouring classes were to some extent skilled , but if living-in servants of all classes are included the proportion would shrink to a quarter and if unskilled " manufacturers " are removed , we can conclude that at least a fifth of the men of the labouring classes of the eighteenth century were more or less skilled , that is had something other than " common " labour power to offer on the labour market . |
| 19 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 20 | In the West Midlands , for instance , over a third of the men whose occupations were noted in the Sedgley parish register during 1579 and 1580 were either nailmakers or some other type of metalworker . |
| 21 | In fact , over 80 per cent of the women with hysterical or sociopathic disorders had , as children , lived away from both natural parents at some time , and over a third of the men diagnosed in adulthood as schizophrenic had been taken into care during childhood . |