Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of men " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise . |
| 2 | Probably the field of his choice was narrowed by the inability of men without friends at court to make an application . |
| 3 | She is whatever the majority of men regard as sexy at any given moment . |
| 4 | Women have a hard enough time — being a ‘ house-husband ’ in most circumstances would be a struggle as the majority of men would be unable to find the support that women get amongst their peer group . |
| 5 | The majority of men who survive can expect to have the support of a wife up to the age of 85 , but any woman over 72 is more likely to be a widow left on her own . |
| 6 | For the majority of men leading a fairly inactive life an intake of 1500kcals will probably produce the desired weekly weight loss . |
| 7 | The majority of men who develop gonorrhoea in the penile urethra will notice two main symptoms . |
| 8 | They should be protected by law from moral persecution as the majority of men mean no harm . |
| 9 | Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves . |
| 10 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 11 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 12 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 13 | The cosy solution of bourgeois educational success in which the sole objective was not to be a loser , was abruptly shattered by the realisation that the majority of men and women were , like his father , losers , and that to turn one 's back on them and on his origins in a strategy of personal self-survival , was an inadequate response . |
| 14 | The majority of men are accustomed to some particular style of living , and they generally refrain from marriage , if the increased expenses of married life would compel them to live in a manner which would not give them what has been aptly termed their historical standard of comfort . |
| 15 | ‘ The majority of men do n't want a relationship . |
| 16 | Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character ! |
| 17 | The majority of women — and , indeed , the majority of men — are feeling that they must start protecting family life . |
| 18 | Her real power lay in her knowledge of others , her awareness of the weakness of men , the destructive weight of a well-timed laugh . |
| 19 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 20 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 21 | For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men ? |
| 22 | All we are saying in claiming the existence of men , he might argue , is that " x is a man " , given an appropriate substitution for x , can yield a knowable proposition . |
| 23 | Thus a more natural way of asserting the existence of men would be by saying " Some living creatures are men " , or something along these lines ; employing , that is , a proposition of the " Some 5 are P " type . |
| 24 | Three hours had passed by the measure of men and in Sichuan Province , in the great palace at Tongjiang , Li Shai Tung sat with his son in the dim-lit silence of his study , reading through the report General Nocenzi had brought . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | From Pip being infatuated with Estella and this causing him to turn against his upbringing and background though she harbours no feelings of this sort for him due to her upbringing by Miss Havisham solely as a means to break the heart of men as Compeyson once did to her . |
| 27 | Perhaps the attraction was due to the German blood which flowed in the veins of some of my ancestors ; it was no doubt helped by my veneration for the genius of men like Wagner and Goethe . |
| 28 | The latrines are better in winter because the droppings under the board seats are frozen and the ice quickly binds the smell of men 's waste . |
| 29 | In our day many women are being called by the Holy Spirit to this hard vocation of priesthood — but at present the Church of England does not allow their vocations to be tested , as it does in the case of men . |
| 30 | There is much evidence that , at least in the case of men , short cropped hair signifies the acceptance of discipline and compliance with authority , whereas long hair signals the exact opposite — defiance of the established order . |