Example sentences of "which men " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said your body is like a book in which men may read strange things , a foreign country in which they may travel with delight . |
| 2 | A member state was entitled to discriminate in the ages at which men and women became entitled to state pensions but it was not acceptable for a distinction to be made between the sexes as to the age of retirement : see Marchall v Southampton and SW Hampshire Area Health Authority ( Teaching ) ( 1986 ) ICR 335 ; Roberts v Tate & Lyle ( 1986 ) ICR 371 . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 4 | Berger impersonates her to a fault , both in the superb egotism of female love — ‘ It is painful for us to judge the man we 've taken , for he 's already ours , like a son ’ — and in the certitudes of peasant thinking : ‘ I will tell you which men deserve our respect … |
| 5 | The conflict , in which men of letters are now burying each other in eloquent abuse , is over the possession of Kavanagh 's soul and the legacy of his poems . |
| 6 | The content of education must therefore be that which men would wish to know for its own sake . |
| 7 | The knowledge which men desire for its own sake is never mere information , mere acquisition of separate isolated facts , like trains in a timetable , or careers in Who 's Who ? |
| 8 | Education is a good in its own right , something which men desire because they are men , and which they will therefore spend their effort and their riches to procure for themselves and to bestow upon others . |
| 9 | During a scene in W C Fields ' The Bank Dick in which men were digging a trench in the road I became aware that my feet felt cold and wet . |
| 10 | the objects to which men give most preference , their ideals , proceed from the same perceptions and experiences as the objects which they most abhor , and … they were originally only distinguished from one another through slight modifications … |
| 11 | This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood . |
| 12 | Similarly , A. James Hammerton 's analysis of the Victorian law of matrimonial cruelty also demonstrates the complex and different ways in which men and women drew on ideas of patriarchal and companionate marriage . |
| 13 | Thus , among South American hunters and gatherers , women are actively excluded from hunting large animals , an occasional but highly valued activity , but , on the other hand , they are expected to supply the basis of daily sustenance through gathering of vegetable products , an activity which men affect to despise , but which is far more time consuming , and infinitely more important for subsistence . |
| 14 | The effect of capitalism on the women of farming families was therefore to trap them even further in their role as producers of labour power and to intensify the feeling which men and women of these families had experienced for so long that ‘ Life itself is work ’ . |
| 15 | Before we can know the cause of , say , rationality , by which men are distinguished from other things , we need to know the causes of those parts which all material things have in common , for example occupation of space , solidity , shape , and movement . |
| 16 | It was clear that Chancery was doing work which the Common Law Courts could not or would not do , and without which men 's rights could not be sufficiently protected . |
| 17 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 18 | Then came the court of the women , which men could also enter , but which was as close to the sanctuary as women could come . |
| 19 | They also work the same hours , only to rush off afterwards to do child care , shopping , cooking and cleaning tasks from which men are exempt . |
| 20 | Poovey describes the silenced female body as a site upon which men can inscribe their anxieties about their sexuality and that of women . |
| 21 | These were all historical facts , facts about the past which men cited to authenticate or justify their or other people 's actions : they were the chief source of the Zuwaya image of statelessness . |
| 22 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 23 | It controls the avenues by which men and women advance their careers . |
| 24 | Drama is at one with the rituals , the pageants , the festivals and the processions and all the forms with which men and women celebrate . |
| 25 | The Government 's job is to create a framework within which men and women of all ages can develop skills , gain qualifications and shape their own futures . |
| 26 | The lighter work to which men tended to shift as they got older was generally worse paid . |
| 27 | That was why he had walked everywhere on his early journeys ; and now it was the main reason why he was so happy to eat the food which men prepared for him either before or after they had sex , to sit at their dining room tables . |
| 28 | Lewes had some towers made of scaffolding poles from which men could swing from ropes to simulate the final drop of landing . |
| 29 | And yet so many people are pleased with the way they manage to hide their emotions — to maintain that ‘ stiff upper lip ’ of which men in particular seem to be so proud . |
| 30 | The authorities had no option but to suspend the League , replacing it with three regional leagues in which men could play as amateurs , receiving only a token payment plus expenses , wherever they happened to be stationed . |