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 | The Star that appeared at [ Christ 's ] Birth , and the Journey of the Chaldean wise Men , is mentioned by Chalcidius the Platonist . |
| 7 | She is also much taller than most of the grubby little men , which may have something to do with it . |
| 8 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It is said that Joshua Reynolds , one of the Grand Old Men of English art , was instrumental in defining the successful modern portrait . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Deserted — except for the sprawled corpses of the two murdered men , lying where death had struck them down . |
| 16 | But Sid Cornish , who was a serious atheist , could not get the sight of the two kneeling men out of his mind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ... |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Out of the fifty odd men left , only about thirty would be required to unload the Russian ship , big as she was . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For comparison , of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted none had suffered from bacterial pneumonia , nor had any participant been treated for complications of his HIV infection . |
| 28 | Not only the Siberian natives , who had long suffered from the systematic cruelty and exploitation of the invading white men ( see James Forsyth 's account in Chapter 4 ) , but also the ‘ old inhabitants ’ ( starozhily ) , Russian peasants , citizens and merchants fell victim of their virtual reign of terror . |
| 29 | There is an outer half-circle of the twenty-four old men from the Book of the Revelation , holding long-necked jars of perfume or playing on early musical instruments : this is Heaven . |
| 30 | Following the Orange Tree 's fine revival of Rodney Ackland 's The Dark River , this production offers further persuasive evidence that there was far more vitality in the English theatre before the arrival of the angry young men and the Royal Court revolution than is generally acknowledged . |