Example sentences of "man and [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The men and women of the past saw the same physical universe that we did , but their way of seeing it was quite different ; their way of describing it in written form more different still . |
| 32 | The contrasting attitudes become more vivid if we try to envisage men and women of the two epochs as they lie ( as all must ) on their death-beds . |
| 33 | The war meant the stationing of men and women of the Army and the RAF in and around Portadown . |
| 34 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 35 | MAKING TRACKS This month 's Making Tracks goes behind the closed doors of the record industry for an intriguing glimpse inside the minds of the A&R men and women of the business , those people on whose whim your musical career could stand or fall … |
| 36 | BRITISH track and field athletes claimed a first yesterday when it was announced that men and women of the same standard will compete against each other . |
| 37 | And , according to outplacement specialists InterExec , when men and women of the same age group are pitted against each other , women are still offered jobs 25% faster than men . |
| 38 | They were the pioneers of a new human experiment in the West and seemed the men and women of the hour . |
| 39 | Yet Gandalf also on occasion , together with the other wise men and women of the story , accepts defeat as a long-term prospect , a prospect which The Lord of the Rings as a whole does not deny . |
| 40 | It is in their observations and criticisms that the historian has an interest , for they enable him to judge what was important at the time , and how intelligent contemporaries reacted to the difficulties and dilemmas which faced men and women of the age . |
| 41 | As mentioned there are few records to name the originators of many of the finest carvings of the 16th century , but approximately 400 years after Simon Werman left his name or initials on his work , 15 men and women of the village of Halse near Taunton decided on a unique and practical way of assisting with the restoration of the village church of St James . |
| 42 | [ Archives in Museum of the History of Science , Oxford , especially MSS Museum 29 , 62 , and 89 ; obituary by C. V. Boys in Proceedings of the Royal Society , series A , vol. lxxxviii , 1913 ; Victor G. Plarr , Men and Women of the Time , 15th edn. , 1899 . ] |
| 43 | [ Men and Women of the Time , 14th edn. , 1895 , revised by Victor G. Plarr ; S. M. Ellis ( ed . ) , |
| 44 | ‘ No , men and women of the jury , they are not . |
| 45 | And , men and women of the jury , many people in our country — young people , schoolchildren , too — take this drug . |
| 46 | Yes , men and women of the jury , many young people and children — your children and my children , remember ! — die because of this drug . ’ |
| 47 | Passing sentence , Lord Justice MacDermott told Manning : ‘ All murders are foul and also futile and will not prevent the hard-working men and women of the province from carrying on their lives . |
| 48 | Looking backwards , the ways of the men and women of the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century seem fixed in an ancient tradition changing , if at all , at no more than a snail 's pace . |
| 49 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 50 | The men and women of the 9th Supply Regiment of the Royal Logistical Corps are going to Split in Croatia . |
| 51 | In this 75th anniversary year of the RAF , Max Arthur 's history of the force from 1918 , ‘ There Shall Be Wings ’ ( Hodder and Stoughton , £18.99 ) , is a fitting tribute to the men and women of the service . |
| 52 | As a retired hospital charge nurse I respect the men and women of the emergency services . |
| 53 | The shouting of men and women to the dogs , to the cows and to each other . |
| 54 | She understands fully the permanence of the bonds which link men and women to the stars , to Venus , to Jupiter , the Black Moon , the Dragon , her understanding is her passion etc , etc . ’ |
| 55 | J Wood in the Custom House and Silvertown Ward expressed the need to administer effectively the 1918 Education Act , 1918 Maternity Act , and the 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act : ‘ In a period of reconstruction only a majority of conscious Socialist and labour men and women on the council will have the determination to make West Ham a healthier , cleaner , more sanitary town to live in ’ . |
| 56 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 57 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 58 | There are no certainties in the field of demography , but on the assumption that present mortality rates at all ages will not worsen , we can be fairly certain about the absolute numbers of men and women over the present statutory retirement pension age ( 60 for women and 65 for men ) well into the twenty-first century — at least until the 2040s — because all of them are already born . |
| 59 | The effect of this change could be profound : it has been compared to the revolution that science produced in the consciousness of men and women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 60 | He nodded , but pressed on : How did women like Faye and Roberta see the relations between men and women after the revolution ? |