Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's clear from the level of concentration on the brows of the muscular young men and the shoulder-padded young women in the front row that they would have happily forked out for the privilege of being present . |
| 2 | Tom Sutcliffe , one of the outstanding deafened men of recent times , was born with normal hearing and chose the church as his vocation . |
| 3 | ‘ He was one of the nicest young men you could wish to meet , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 4 | Many of the best young men were lost-Macmillan , Duff Cooper , O'Connor , Bentinck and Charles Rhys , the Prime Minister 's Private Secretary , all went down . |
| 5 | Yet Martin is remembered as one of the best stand-up men in American history . |
| 6 | It was a nostalgic occasion , made even more emotional by the memory of the fifteen hundred men who flew from here never to return . |
| 7 | The Star that appeared at [ Christ 's ] Birth , and the Journey of the Chaldean wise Men , is mentioned by Chalcidius the Platonist . |
| 8 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 9 | She is also much taller than most of the grubby little men , which may have something to do with it . |
| 10 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 11 | The Illustrated London News said that its rich encrustation of sculpture would make the building ‘ a monument and record of the great military men and achievements of the British nation ’ with statues of eminent commanders and ‘ the names and dates of remarkable victories ’ . |
| 12 | It is said that Joshua Reynolds , one of the Grand Old Men of English art , was instrumental in defining the successful modern portrait . |
| 13 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 14 | She could imagine dark-robed figures moving silently along the stone corridors in place of the healthy young men and women she knew to be living inside . |
| 15 | As they square up to each other the spouses of the first three men ‘ Enter above ’ and implore them not to fight . |
| 16 | In principle , just as society was first invented by man , it could also be perfected by man ; but in practice , under the influence of civilization , the intrinsic nobility of the first true men becomes corrupted . |
| 17 | Tory propagandists repeatedly alleged that the war policies of the Whigs were designed to promote the interests of the new monied men at the expense of the gentry . |
| 18 | Deserted — except for the sprawled corpses of the two murdered men , lying where death had struck them down . |
| 19 | But Sid Cornish , who was a serious atheist , could not get the sight of the two kneeling men out of his mind . |
| 20 | The faces and voices of the two young men , one about my age , the other hardly fourteen , one standing right behind the newspaper man the other nestling next to him , were by no means devoid of expression . |
| 21 | I went out and found in the court two corpses interlocked ; they were the bodies of the two young men who had before been with me in the room ... |
| 22 | I find it not a little peculiar , however , that the Secretary of State chose to combine his statement on the deaths of the two young men whose duties involved the care of the sick in this hospital with a statement on the death of a car thief . |
| 23 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 24 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 25 | He smiled coolly , gave a nod in the general direction of the other two men , and set off across the ballroom with Caroline in tow . |
| 26 | She found him attentive , intelligent , even charming , but with a distinct sense of separateness and pride that she found refreshingly unlike any of the other local men she had known . |
| 27 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 28 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 29 | For comparison none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted for HIV , three out of 177 ( 2% ) drug users negative for HIV , and 10 out of 112 ( 9% ) drug users positive for HIV reported bacterial pneumonia . |
| 30 | In contrast none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted ( p=0.007 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) and only three of the 177 ( 2% ) of the drug users negative for HIV ( p=0.0002 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) reported pneumonia in the preceding period . |