Example sentences of "men who [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragic musical story of a group of viciously exploited young men who rode the back of the drug-frenzied rock-shag monster for two full years to emerge at the end bruised and bloody and battered but changed — changed from grubby little knobsessed small-town caterpillars into beautiful , brilliantly SPIRITUAL butterflies . |
| 2 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 3 | Clwyd 's director of social services John Jeavons — one of the men who ordered the probe — was not available for comment yesterday . |
| 4 | As a financial journalist for over 30 years , I together with many other financial journalists , regarded him as one of the accountancy profession 's most unassuming men who accepted a host of roles which enhanced the Cork Gully dynasty , the profession 's stature , and many charities . |
| 5 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 6 | Men Who Ran The Trams — The Managers |
| 7 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 8 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 9 | The elder of the two men who ran the establishment shook muesli on to her plate . |
| 10 | And have you seen the papers ? ’ asked the younger of the two men who ran the boarding house . |
| 11 | These two new houses were paralleled by the lesser houses of local merchants , men who formed a powerful , self-elected oligarchy after the older authorities had been removed . |
| 12 | These were the men who formed the main links between the papal curia and the Church at large and who were charged with the maintenance of orthodoxy in their dioceses . |
| 13 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 14 | In 1263–4 he was one of four men who administered the county of Yorkshire in opposition to its royalist sheriff . |
| 15 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 16 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 17 | While Yannick Noah and his players rightly basked in the glory of the remarkable victory for a few days , one of the men who masterminded the victory was already making plans to build upon the fantastic achievements of 1991 . |
| 18 | TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 19 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 20 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
| 21 | Young men who had no teeth at baseline had a 2.6-fold increased risk of dying . |
| 22 | Independent clothiers of the old type who farmed a little land in addition to their work at the loom became outnumbered by a growing body of men who had no land to provide extra income but were simply wage-earners . |
| 23 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 24 | On those young men who had a capacity to respond , his interests had a constructive influence . |
| 25 | The study shows that men who had a small head circumference or were thin at birth , or both , had higher rates of cardiovascular death than those who had a large head circumference or were fat . |
| 26 | Rolling totals were calculated for successive three year periods : in 1985–7 there were 91 homosexual men who had a negative test followed by a positive one ; in 1986–8 there were 58 such men ; in 1987–9 there were 60 ; in 1988–90 there were 84 ; and in 1989–91 there were 97 ( table III ) . |
| 27 | Young men who had a maximum oral hygiene index of 6 had a risk of dying 3.4 times higher than those who had a hygiene index of 0 . |
| 28 | And mostly those were er married men who had a small place of their own which was n't quite big enough to keep them full time . |
| 29 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 30 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |