Example sentences of "men [conj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were touting for trade , crying out ‘ Want some business ? ’ or ‘ Want some love ? ’ at the men and groups walking through the fog . |
| 2 | It was not filled with crusty old men and women poring over the paintings ; the whole building had a bright and open atmosphere , instead of the sullen brooding one she 'd expected . |
| 3 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 4 | Overnight a highly suspect communist renegade was transformed into an eternally youthful dissident communist , a beacon of hope for a generation of young men and women rebelling against the anarchronistic irrelevance of an outmoded educational system and the serial alienation of a post-industrial society . |
| 5 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 6 | He went to investigate and , seeing an open door in the side of the mound , looked inside and saw men and women preparing for a ceremonial meal . |
| 7 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 8 | He still drew from life , of men and women filing towards the mine shaft through the snow and of miners holding lamps , bent double under loaded sacks . |
| 9 | Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls . |
| 10 | Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . |
| 11 | In Somerset , reconstruction of the earlier topography of the county has led Christopher Norman to suggest a range of rich resources available at different seasons , with men and animals moving from the rich pasture and woodland of the Somerset Levels in summer to the uplands of Exmoor , the Quantocks and the Mendips in spring and autumn . |