Example sentences of "man [conj] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1953 , the Ministry of Labour and National Service issued a memorandum on the Employment of Older Men and Women which claimed that ‘ for compelling social and economic reasons the door must be opened widely to the employment of people able and willing to work , irrespective of their age ’ . |
| 32 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 33 | Men and women who grew up during the swinging sixties may have a different view of sexual fidelity from those who are slightly older . |
| 34 | Like those sad old men and women who haunt every casino , they knew the wheel must always win in the end . |
| 35 | Some men and women who heard this felt a final satisfaction in knowing that he was a coward in the end . |
| 36 | For each of the nonmanual groups the proportions of men and women who smoked were similar but prevalence was higher among men than among women in the manual groups [ 1 ] . |
| 37 | Although cigarette smoking prevalence has remained higher among men than among women , there has been a narrowing in the gap between the proportions of men and women who smoke cigarettes . |
| 38 | Where are the men and women who manned them ? |
| 39 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 40 | In the past , these communities produced men and women who made valuable contributions to Scotland and mankind in general , in many fields of endeavour . |
| 41 | The men and women who made it were among the friends who welcomed us to Nigeria and Ghana . |
| 42 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 43 | Rampton began life as a criminal lunatic asylum in 1912 and today takes men and women who require treatment under special security conditions because of their dangerous , violent or criminal tendencies . |
| 44 | We remember that the church is not a building , but a family , a body of redeemed men and women who follow Jesus . |
| 45 | The fact that they do so and produce any results at all in such circumstances says a great deal about the men and women who serve us all in Derbyshire . |
| 46 | In partnership with Forces Help Society , SSAFA cares for men and women who serve or have ever served in the Armed Forces and their families and dependents . |
| 47 | All were momentous events that will never be forgotten , least of all by the men and women who fought in them . |
| 48 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 49 | I was astonished , for instance , at the number of married men and women who contacted us . |
| 50 | One can also ask whether bureaucracies determine the behaviour of the men and women who take part in the process of decision or whether these human individuals determine , among other things , the behaviour of the bureaucracies to which they belong . |
| 51 | So say the dozens of famous men and women who 've signed the advertisement due to appear in tomorrow 's Times . |
| 52 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 53 | The first requirement must be love of and pride in one 's country , which can grow only in men and women who genuinely feel they have a stake in it , however small ; men and women who know that their own initiative , ingenuity , and hard work will improve that stake and make fuller and more secure lives for their families . |
| 54 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 55 | The men and women who came were dressed differently from those who jostled one another in the rue Sanghines , but they looked at money the same way . |
| 56 | To the men and women who wait in its shadow with the ground rumbling under them and the volcanic ash hiding the sun , it is a terrifying reality which may drive them to the most desperate expedients . |
| 57 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 58 | Defence of the Wild seven o'clock , folks on men and women who dedicate their lives protecting the worlds , the worlds wilderness |
| 59 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 60 | Mr Good said the four leaders came to the conclusion that they would not be prepared , under any circumstances , to talk with men and women who use violence and kill and destroy . |