Example sentences of "man and [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parasitic helminths which invade the body cavities and tissues of man and animals have developed specialised biochemical adaptations appropriate to this lifestyle . |
| 2 | The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On this World Communications Day , I extend my cordial best wishes to all the professional men and women striving to serve the human family through the communications media , to all the members of the International Catholic Media Organizations active throughout the world , and to the vast body of media consumers who are their audience and towards whom they bear a very weighty responsibility . |
| 5 | But after the flashes would come an even greater blackness as men and women continued to show that they preferred darkness to light . |
| 6 | Throughout the remainder of the 1650s , successive governments presided over a wide diversity of religious practice ; large numbers of English men and women continued to frequent only their parish churches , many worshipped solely in gathered congregations of Independents , Baptists , and Quakers , and many more regularly attended both sectarian and parish worship . |
| 7 | When it comes to emulating Sir John Harvey-Jones , the men and women tested match each other stride for stride — and are far in front of the average manager . |
| 8 | But for both sexes general sickness is on the increase with a third of all the men and women questioned complained of long-standing ill-health . |
| 9 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 10 | For instance , the meaning of old men and women differs according to whether old goes with men only : |
| 11 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 12 | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti first admitted publicly on Oct. 17 that a NATO-backed clandestine para-military force of between 600 and 1,000 men and women had existed in Italy since 1951 , to counter a possible invasion by Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 13 | the time had come when the old age pension should be given , irrespective of social position , sex , and necessity , to every person in the UK on reaching the age of 70 … the fact that some men and women had received the pension while other hardworking and deserving people had not , created a prejudice … |
| 14 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 15 | Men and women had fought in the College of Surgeons opposite and British soldiers had fired upon them from the roof of this very hotel . |
| 16 | A large number of men and women had come to Iraq from all over the world to build a ‘ human wall ’ between the armies on the Iraqi-Saudi border . |
| 17 | These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion , many taking unpaid leave from work . |
| 18 | Young men and women tend to dislike the other more mechanical methods , such as using a sheath , diaphragm or cap , which although quite effective , are seen as too planned as well as being comparatively messy . |
| 19 | The telling of the story is an inescapable mandate for the whole Church ; word accompanies deed as the kingdom throws its light ahead of its arrival and men and women seek to live in that light . |
| 20 | As a result , its fields are competitive with a dozen men and women hoping to win the $25,000 first prize , and if not , go away with at least a little piece of the $160,000 prize money . |
| 21 | However , many ordinary men and women came to find this undiluted predestinarian Calvinism uncongenial and repressive . |
| 22 | In relation to these changes , which can evoke highly charged feelings , men and women need to continue to negotiate an acceptable balance in their relationship between being together and being apart . |
| 23 | At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " . |
| 24 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 25 | No answer was offered by Freud about why men and women seem to repudiate the feminine . |
| 26 | The differences between men and women seem to arise from factors such as women 's hesitancy , women 's role as cajoler and mediator for men , and men 's social dominance and sense of themselves as more authoritative . |
| 27 | The once tiny fringe of retired men and women has broadened to a band of ten million . |
| 28 | Erm I 'm a home help and I go you know , for a lot of pensions and erm the pittance that these er old men and women have to live on a th th , I mean I really think it 's terrible ! |
| 29 | The first is to convey a picture of ordinary later life and its diverse patterns and meanings as older men and women have expressed it to us . |
| 30 | The amount of sorrow , grief and hatred that gay men and women have to put up with just to SURVIVE instantly makes them infinitely stronger than you . |