Example sentences of "men who [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe it is true that the differences between women and men are genetically determined as suggested by Arnold Jago ( Letters NI 191 ) — and it does seem to be men who cause all the wars , poverty , oppression and are now causing the destruction of the planet — so perhaps Mr Jago would agree that there is no hope but to get rid of the lot of them .
2 Inevitably , with inflation , only a small group profited but they were the men who directed some important changes in the country 's agricultural and industrial patterns , and whose conspicuous consumption we have already seen .
3 Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords .
4 Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings .
5 In men under 50 , however , periodontal disease was a stronger risk factor ; men with periodontitis had a nearly twofold higher risk of coronary heart disease than men who had little or no periodontal disease .
6 I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other .
7 Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything .
8 They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales , and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions .
9 Two men who fought each other for the leadership after the disastrous defeat of 1983 , settled down well together .
10 And on the third day , some men who thought this to be a favourable sign went forth to water the bumpouses and to bring them to their maturity and wholesomeness .
11 One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway .
12 The men who inserted these phrases knew what they were doing , and they knew also that it was important not to overdo the subject of the primacy .
13 Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it .
14 Mr Arthur Cross said : ‘ The men who did this are bloody murderers .
15 Meanwhile , police are keen to interview two men who chased another Asian youth after the attack on Quaddus .
16 Young men who read this , take Shallot 's advice !
17 Nevertheless , even catering for the eloquence of the after-dinner story teller , this abrupt introduction of Doctor Who into the Serials Department does serve to give an insight into two men who shaped much of what later went before the cold eyes of the BBC cameras .
18 War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs .
19 Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail .
20 So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives .
21 In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " .
22 Now the , the initiations are controlled by the elder men who have all , all the wives and if you do n't behave and join the club and conform to what th the crown elders expect , you wo n't get initiated and i if you do n't unless you say you wo n't get any wives and the guys who are doing the initiating the initiated are the very same guys who have all the daughters .
23 I prefer men who have some feminine tact and delicacy and sensitivity , and women who have some of the better masculine qualities — tenderness , protectiveness , a good brain and a humorous way of dealing with all the practical impossibilities of life .
24 The outcome is that men who have few resources other than physical ones are more likely to commit legally defined rape , whilst those men who possess a whole range of resources from economic patronage to cultural charm are likely to be viewed by the law as ‘ real men ’ practising their primeval arts-and that is something the majesty of the law should leave alone !
25 Women and men who provide these services deserve decent pay and decent conditions .
26 Also , it has been noted that men who carry another extra chromosome — in this case a Y chromosome , which is the one that determines maleness — are unusually tall and display aggressive antisocial behavior .
27 The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts .
28 ‘ You actually sound as if you care about what happens to the men who undergo this operation . ’
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