Example sentences of "of the [noun] of men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her real power lay in her knowledge of others , her awareness of the weakness of men , the destructive weight of a well-timed laugh . |
| 2 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 3 | Even so , he was called upon to sign documents on occasions , as when a conveyance relating to the chapel and its land was prepared in 1805 and his name as witness ( 'John Titford , Cardmaker' ) appears alongside those of John Lacey , shoemaker , Richard Butler , weaver , and James Browning , clothier ; together they form a nice little thumb-nail sketch of the kind of men who were ‘ Chapel ’ rather than ‘ Church ’ at this period . |
| 4 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 5 | Her reading of the passions of men and women in the past so often revealed that ecstatic love ended in tragedy . |
| 6 | The ensuing conflict is the most famous battle in all of the history of Men , the Battle of Black Fire Pass . |
| 7 | The growth of ethology can continue only if we find a way of talking about human experience that opens the whole range of the activities of men and women to inspection . |
| 8 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 9 | Most of the warlords whose campaigns of destruction have shaken the world and threatened the destruction of the realms of Men have been Orcs rather than Goblins . |
| 10 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 11 | This approach is potentially useful since it suggests that women 's under-representation in public politics can be seen not simply in terms of women 's lack of interest in politics but of the ability of men to prevent women 's issues entering politics . |
| 12 | As Christians , our approach to the Old Testament is frequently selective : we value the Ten Commandments as a basis for public morality , the psalter as a help in public worship and the record of the lives of men and women of faith as examples from which we can learn . |
| 13 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 14 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 15 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 16 | Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week . |
| 17 | The Emperor wanted to raise a city as a memorial to his rule ; for , as the contemporary historian Qandhari observed : ‘ A good name for Kings is achieved by means of lofty buildings … that is to say , the standard of the measure of men is assessed by the worth of their buildings . ’ |
| 18 | He had sent his outriders on ahead to make ready for him at Haughmond , or Lilleshall , some retired place where he could swallow this wormwood in solitude , out of the eyes of men . |
| 19 | A similar picture emerges from a comparison of the salaries of men and women in non-manual occupations — the slight narrowing of the gap taking place during the last decade . |
| 20 | Mirth is one of the gifts of men for it is an opener of the closed mind . |
| 21 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |
| 22 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 23 | The Great War also caused the appointment , for the first time because of the absence of men in the Forces , of lady teachers to the staff . |
| 24 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 25 | Further , part of the reduction in horizontal segregation has been a consequence of the entry of men into traditional areas of women 's employment , rather than of women into those higher-paying sectors traditionally monopolized by men . |
| 26 | The idea that science should be expressed in someone else 's language , the compulsory ‘ the test-tube was placed over the bunsen burner ’ , may disadvantage many pupils but especially girls if that other language is seen to be part of the world of men . |
| 27 | Of the handful of men who made real money out of tin , Godolphin , besides being a leading figure in the industry , was also the richest resident in the county , assessed at £200 . |
| 28 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 29 | As the horses were pulled to a halt , he jumped out of the coach and stood in front of the band of men who were trudging up the hill . |
| 30 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |