Example sentences of "men who [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On those young men who had a capacity to respond , his interests had a constructive influence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Four months ago at Maastricht , Mr Major was the new boy , the cadet among titans who had led their countries for 10 years or more : Kohl , Mitterrand and Andreotti , men who shared a vision of a tightly-integrated monetary and political union and who rode roughshod over Britain . |
| 11 | TWO Cookstown men who attacked a pair of undercover police have been jailed by Belfast Crown Court . |
| 12 | Police are hunting two men who bundled a schoolgirl into a car and abducted her . |
| 13 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 14 | As later discussion will show , the existence of a large group of men who received an income from the state which took account of their family size considerably strengthened the case for family allowances to be paid irrespective of the employment status of the parents . |
| 15 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 16 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 17 | Police would also like to hear from two men who boarded a taxi at around 12:30am that Saturday morning at the junction of Whitehouse Loan and Strathearn Place and travelled to the Grassmarket , leaving the taxi near Victoria Street . |
| 18 | In North Shields on Sept. 9-10 , hundreds of youths rioted in Meadow Well after the deaths of two young men who crashed a stolen car while being chased by police ; shops , houses and a community centre were burned down [ see p. 38404 ] . |
| 19 | For men who needed a mother rather than a mistress . |
| 20 | He egged on — and his interior minister armed — the Serb politicians of Croatia and Bosnia , small-town professional men who fancied a chance of fame as Serb patriots . |
| 21 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 22 | Two men who raided a supermarket after kidnapping the supervisor and her husband at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of twelve years . |
| 23 | He has now been positively identified by detectives as one of two men who hijacked a police car when traffic patrol officers checked out a suspect van in Co Limerick three weeks ago . |
| 24 | Except to some extent in the Habsburg territories , the men who gained a knowledge of them were destined to remain translators , interpreters or at most consuls , auxiliaries rather than actors at the centre of the diplomatic stage . |
| 25 | TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |