Example sentences of "men [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They want to know whether today 's men are better fathers , whether men will ever open up at the breakfast table , whether male impotence is on the rise , whether men suffer from their own form of menopause , whether men will cultivate any interest in pastimes more enlightened than football and snooker . |
2 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |
3 | Many men suffer from this driver ; as children they were often told by their parents : ‘ Be strong ! |
4 | The reason why so many more women than men suffer from Cystitis is partly explained by the way their bodies are made . |
5 | I think women get depressed but men suffer from stress which is somehow more respectable it 's more macho , it 's associated |
6 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
7 | Yet you are my Bishop and you can , as you say , fulfil the spiritual calls that men make on you . |
8 | Written in a lively and witty style , the pamphlet defends women against the accusations of vanity , impertinence , enviousness , dissimulation , and inconstancy which men make against them . |
9 | Our young men tend to be rowdy , but even they are inclined to settle down once married . |
10 | Men tend to be up ahead , gaining a rise , stopping suddenly and hissing ‘ Shooosh ! |
11 | In all of this , older people , less well educated people , people without bank accounts , those in lower socio-economic groups , West Indians ( probably not Asians ) , and to some extent women rather than men tend to be less well informed than average , and to make even less rational choices when they buy credit . |
12 | It is consequently scarcely surprising that Somali men tend to be very ambivalent in their attitudes towards these women 's ailments , especially since some impatient husbands find that the best cure is often a good beating ! |
13 | So far as the objects of fantasy are concerned , men tend to be fairly realistic : they prefer to invite people they know into their imaginations rather than film stars . |
14 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
15 | Men tend to be the forgotten figures in any infertility story . |
16 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
17 | Since both Chartists and temperance men remain in short supply in Ripon , we have been able to discover nothing more about the singularly unsuccessful Mr Lees . |
18 | Three bored black men sit in the back of a mini-van . |
19 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
20 | Four men sit in a top-secret room . |
21 | There is then the question of the selection of topics for these courses — should teachers avoid significant historical events simply because men predominate in them ? |
22 | Greater unity would strengthen the weakest link in the chain , the village minister : ‘ When sneerers and wonderers ask [ him ] , ‘ Hath any man brought him ought to eat ? ’ it will soon be made clear that good men eat at the table of Divine plenteousness . ’ |
23 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |
24 | So that 's the way men fly like birds at night for military advantage . |
25 | If men want to they usually do . ’ |
26 | ‘ Men want to be included in the great club of families . |
27 | She does n't look like the kind of girl men want to be parted from for too long ! ’ |
28 | More female patients had rheumatoid arthritis , but in the remaining three conditions , the proportion of men was greater , reaffirming that men appear to be more likely than women to have ischaemic ulcers . |
29 | Some men appear to be able to attain " minor " or " major " orgasm , the former allowing continuation of intercourse for longer periods . |
30 | Both men report to chief executive . |