Example sentences of "men [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Keinmeyer 's men may be glad of a hand . ’
2 His sense of identity with his fellow men may be interpreted as one of the reasons for his participation in social , political and economic affairs .
3 He maintains that women are granted the power to illuminate , and that they can use this wisely , even though men may be reluctant to face up to what is revealed :
4 Women have massive amounts of love invested in fathers , lovers and sons , and many of these women despise the systems their own men may be helping to sustain .
5 The factors used to explain the decreased labour market participation of older men may be classified into three groups : health , economic and structural .
6 Given the system , neither those parts nor those men may be said to have conditioned or influenced history .
7 Men may be forced to change their laws but God does not change his .
8 Others , such as Engels ( 1972 ) , have argued that this particular form of domestic oppression exists in order that men may be sure that they pass such property as they possess to their heirs without fear of it going to the sons of other men .
9 Whilst , overall , only slightly larger proportions of women than men may be likely to identify themselves as carers , the greater numbers of women in the adult population mean that in absolute terms more women are involved in care-giving than men .
10 Although the article devalues any contribution men may be able to make in this area I strongly refute this .
11 Young men may be more concerned with doing it right to start with , rather than with using contraception .
12 Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction .
13 Accusations of cynical pension-planning inevitably follow , as do questions about whether this is the sort of thing that grown men should be up to .
14 It was bad enough that a National Front MEP should emerge as chairman of the delegation to the Swiss parliament ; worse still that one of Mr Schonhuber 's men should be vice-chairman of the delegation to Israel 's Knesset .
15 Just as , in writing , I think little men should be bound to mere journeyman work .
16 It is clear from the above that higher headquarters placed great emphasis on L Detachment remaining essential fly as a parachute unit , and this was in keeping with Stirling 's doctrine that his men should be able to arrive at a target by whatever means were most suitable .
17 The Netherlands Council for Youth Policy has published a report saying that lesbians and gay men should be able to adopt children , which they currently can not legally do .
18 Men should be walking about on Earth in a state of intoxication and delight , yet here we are amid these real riches and most people are miserable and peevish .
19 Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem .
20 Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon , a caricature of Wright , it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death — a sixpenny doctor ( ’ an honest decent man , but is he any use ? ’ ) or a scoundrel of an artist ( ’ a rotten background , but he 's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things ’ ) .
21 This resource was fully realised by the Home Office who recommended that deaf men should be recruited as Air Raid Wardens ( A.R.P 's ) and firewatchers , and many deaf men did in fact serve in these capacities , and also as stretcher-bearers in air-raid conditions .
22 It was odd , Lucinda thought , that men should be doing a job more suited to women , but this was a real ship , was n't it , on which , if Molly was to be believed , women had yet to establish themselves .
23 Women should have no sexual desires whereas men should be insatiable ; if women get out of line by expressing autonomous desire or refusing to cater to men 's , they will be censured .
24 But Javed 's men should be on top of the world
25 The supreme dread of everyone who cares for the good of the nation or race is that men should be adrift for want of anchorage for their convictions …
26 Likewise , men should be brought into ‘ female-defined reality ’ , that is , the reality of child rearing and education of the new generation .
27 The belief that men should be trained for a narrow role in life came to be challenged ; it was argued that they should have some knowledge of the liberal arts , the ‘ finer ’ things in life .
28 Men should be more careful .
29 In theory at least , centralised decisions by senior men should be better in ‘ quality ’ than decentralised decisions by less experienced subordinates .
30 Men should be the hunters .
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