Example sentences of "man were the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , therefore , and unlike the earlier period , only men were the full participants in and officiants of the nation 's religious life . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | These men were the ministeriales , originally unfree tenants ; as the nobility became increasingly independent , the ministeriales were promoted to fill their place in the royal service , and they received increasingly valuable patronage and endowment ; abbots of imperial monasteries were even forbidden to distribute fiefs to free tenants — they were to be reserved for the unfree , the ministeriales . |
| 4 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 5 | One said , ‘ I thought all women thought all men were the lowest form of human life . ’ |
| 6 | But to imply that the deaths occurred because the men were the initiators of sexual activity is unforgivable . |
| 7 | It was not that men held the power , but that men were the power . |
| 8 | Men were the providers . |
| 9 | Shortage of funds and opportunities for popular mobilisation as well as ‘ outsider ’ status in relation to leading public men were the disabling features of antislavery in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 10 | McKee ( 1987 ) reports that siblings of unemployed men were the second most important category ( after parents ) to give assistance . |
| 11 | People arrived in couples , but the men were the first to leave . |
| 12 | Lili could be difficult , and Syl was irredeemably convinced that men were the principal object of every woman 's thoughts . |
| 13 | All men were the same , of course : they all liked to hold the floor while the womenfolk listened respectfully , but then you 'd think a Turk would be more interesting . |
| 14 | Beyond the little men were the big-time boys who ran the area , once Jewish , now Bengali , who asked and answered no questions . |
| 15 | But other than that I do n't think , women did n't do much I mean even in shops , the men were the shop assistants nearly always . |
| 16 | Taken with Gaimar 's story , however , it is more likely that these men were the Welsh of Wales . |
| 17 | The men were the brothers of Patrick Welsh , one of the two men a jury had just cleared Mr Thompson of killing by using his Jaguar to force their van off the road and into a wall and lamp post . |
| 18 | Because the two men were the chairmen and all the women had all the lower positions . |