Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] men 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heartened by Mr Raymond , we sent a press release to the newsdesks headlined ‘ New Group Formed For Men 's Rights ’ . |
| 2 | Your remarks re childbirth are very pertinent as the aforementioned daughter gave birth to a second little girl on Saturday … so her husband , like mine , will be surrounded by a ‘ monstrous regiment of women ’ as your wife is surrounded by men 's shirts ! |
| 3 | It is easier to judge the impression which the Black Death made on men 's minds , for this is reflected in the chroniclers ' writings , than to measure the scale of its ravages . |
| 4 | There were , as well , jumble sales , and stories are told of men 's silk hats mysteriously and miraculously transformed into stylish ladies ' bonnets , and of feather mattresses disintegrating , to the great discomfort of those transporting them . |
| 5 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 6 | It shows that domestic violence , sexual harassment , rape , incest and sexual assault are commonplace manifestations of a dynamic based on men 's power and women 's subordination . |
| 7 | Let me be desolate and hidden from men 's eyes … ’ |
| 8 | Liberty entered into men 's minds in the struggle against the economic prejudices of the ancien régime , a struggle waged by servants of the crown . |
| 9 | The distinction between the two is linked to men 's belief that women are after emotional closeness as much as physical pleasure , and that women regard the sexual act as something that should be protracted rather than completed as briskly as possible . |
| 10 | Feminist analysis has shown in detail that women 's bodies bear cultural meanings that are quite different from those ascribed to men 's bodies . |
| 11 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 12 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 13 | Jane — downstairs had remarked on men 's capacity for self-deception ; women are n't bad at it either . |
| 14 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 15 | Spender ( 1982 ) believes that women 's thinking takes a special subjective form that can not be formalized in men 's language . |
| 16 | On the one hand we can cite the experiments of social psychologists such as Malamuth , who state that an empirical correlation can be established between men 's exposure to pornography and propensity to rape . |