Example sentences of "men [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the affected men exposed to the live microbe , 11 revealed antibodies against Pruteen in their blood , which in one case was detectable four years later . |
| 2 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 3 | They trace and explain why it is , that the ratio of women to men diagnosed with a mental disorder is 2:1 . |
| 4 | Confident that their management would have been monitoring progress closely , the men depended on the judgement of their supervisors . |
| 5 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 6 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 7 | Macready had men posted on the sidewalks to protect his customers ' money on their way to the casino . |
| 8 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 9 | By romantic the authors mean , in this context , that the passions of men joined with the beautiful forms and great forces of nature and that men identify with these elements . |
| 10 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 11 | The three vehicles jerked to a stop in line abreast and the two panting men halted alongside the one driven by Bob Wallace , the Fire Chief . |
| 12 | At the top of the Exit Cracks the three men stopped for a rest . |
| 13 | There was , he added , powerful and overwhelming evidence to make the case that the three men stopped in the taxi were the same men at Primity Crescent and guilty of all the charges . |
| 14 | The three men assigned to the inflatable waited in the cockpit . |
| 15 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 16 | On February 4 , 1818 , a distinguished group of men gathered on the stair outside the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 17 | On the last barge we found a group of men gathered around a bench beneath a canopy in the bow . |
| 18 | ‘ Let her finish her sleep ! ’ he begged in a whisper , as the men gathered round the stone . |
| 19 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 20 | For those brave enough to delve deeper into his works , many of which feature posses of short-haired young men stripped to the waist and invariably fighting a police state , a surprising number are available from the more imaginative video shops . |
| 21 | As the day wore on the men stripped to the waist in the burning sun . |
| 22 | After all , had n't men broken into the house ? |
| 23 | At about three-fifteen this afternoon a group of five men congregated in the Mudchute , a park in the Cubitt Town area . |
| 24 | ONE of the men trapped in a disused air shaft for nearly ten hours has spoken of his ordeal rats , dead sheep and all . |
| 25 | Steel doors rose at their rear ends and heavily ammed men dropped to the ground . |
| 26 | One of the men tipped as a possible successor to Mr Birt , the Channel 4 chief executive , Michael Grade , said he would not be interested in the job if it were offered . |
| 27 | Outside the sheriff 's office , the men dispersed to the line of assorted vehicles of all shapes and sizes which were parked there . |
| 28 | Scott , from South Shields , is one of the five men nominated for the Best Director Oscar for his gripping work Thelma and Louise , a violent female buddy buddy movie labelled waggishly as Bitch Cassidy . |
| 29 | The kirkyards and muirlands of central and south Ayrshire are dotted with headstones and memorials to men martyred by the King 's Dragoons . |
| 30 | That is , there are as many men dominated by the right hemisphere as there are women . |