Example sentences of "men [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men dismissed were regarded as being close to Moslem fundamentalist circles . |
| 2 | The two men dismissed were Maj.-Gen Sintong Panjaitan , of the 9th Military Command , and Brig. -Gen . |
| 3 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 4 | In the period before Edward V 's deposition only a handful of references to his household survive , but all the men named were former servants of Edward IV . |
| 5 | In the period before Edward V 's deposition only a handful of references to his household survive , but all the men named were former servants of Edward IV . |
| 6 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |
| 7 | Cheshire police stressed that they were not saying that the men pictured were the bombers . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of these men had been so badly damaged , both physically and mentally , by their experiences on the battlefield and in POW camps that their lives were ruined . ’ |
| 9 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 10 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 11 | Jewish men had been expected — unrealistically in the conditions of the Diaspora — to make regular pilgrimages to the Holy City . |
| 12 | He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which , inadequately composed , had grown ; in one case thirteen men had been killed . |
| 13 | Mr Mark Davies , NUM branch secretary , said the trapped men had been in high spirits throughout their ordeal , singing and joking and , at times , trying to move rubble themselves . |
| 14 | So many men had been killed or wounded in the war , that it would be ten years before another generation would fin the gaps . |
| 15 | But , as I have said , the impression I was given in 1944 by three officers of the S.A.S. was that Leslie and his men had been dropped , and that only the plane itself had not returned . |
| 16 | Among the professional politicians there could be little opposition , partly because the key men had been arrested but largely because all attempts to rouse the people made by those still at liberty failed dismally . |
| 17 | Four men had been killed . |
| 18 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 19 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 20 | By the end of August many men had been sent as replacements to the 51 st Division , to the Black Watch and Seaforth Highlanders and some to the KOYLI . |
| 21 | When the parties returned , it was to report that no more men had been found and that there was no way out . |
| 22 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 23 | Resources in men and equipment were summoned from the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire coalfields and within hours a team of vastly experienced men had been brought together . |
| 24 | Millions of men had been butchered during the first World War , and in post-war years , the ratio of births , as I understand it , was four to one in favour of baby girls . |
| 25 | Some of the men had been collecting driftwood and dry sticks and branches from among the trees ; a small fire was coming to life , crackling and spluttering sparks into the haze of heat above it . |
| 26 | The men had been in unknown country , chasing the boar uphill , when the rule is to chase downhill only . |
| 27 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 28 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 29 | Some of the other men had been busy , tying together ropes and halters to make a long leash . |
| 30 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |