Example sentences of "men be to " in BNC.

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1 There is enough to do , if all the listed men are to be visited and spoken to . ’
2 Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven
3 Now men are to be hunters and predators .
4 In contrast to the administrative procedures operating before 1986 , the Act authorizes warrants to be granted for preventing as well as detecting crime , thereby compromising the important question of principle identified by Dicey that ‘ preventive measures are inconsistent with the pervading principle of English law , that men are to be interfered with or punished , not because they may or will break the law , but only when they have committed some definite assignable legal offence ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 249 ) .
5 DOZENS of men are to be exposed as clients of vice girl Kathy Willets after a court ruled her little black book can be made public .
6 This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power ’ ( Dignitatis Humanae 2 ) .
7 From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) .
8 The issue is whether these men are to be allowed to opt out of the rule of law …
9 My father said , ‘ Men are to be feared , not wolves . ’
10 Former Mayor Billy Bleakes said it was ‘ scandalous that honest men are to be made scapegoats ’ , and accused the Unionist members of pursuing a vendetta against the workers .
11 Former Mayor Billy Bleakes said it was ‘ scandalous that honest men are to be made scapegoats ’ , and accused the Unionist members of pursuing a vendetta against the workers .
12 The jury was told the men were to be paid £1,000 each with £500 expenses by Mr Brown 's wife to kill him .
13 One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released .
14 Wherever possible , Red Army men were to be installed on the committees .
15 In these samples older farmers were found in Leicestershire , Cumbria and Derbyshire , whilst the younger men were to be found mainly in North Wales , North Yorkshire , Orkney and Speyside .
16 Men were to her what waves had become to me .
17 The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers .
18 An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid .
19 In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned .
20 Very few wholly unqualified men were to be found at the summit of the administration .
21 Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements .
22 Taylor 's men were to hand in their weapons at the NPFL bases at Firestone , Naama , Salala , Ganta , Gbarnga , Zwedru , and Toedi-Mesurado .
23 The projects were set out in a pamphlet with the alluring title , We Can Conquer Unemployment : 350,000 men were to be employed on road-building , 60 , 000 on housing , 60,000 on telephone development and 62,000 on electrical development .
24 Henceforth , as far as the Milettis were concerned , Zen was Bartocci 's accomplice , the henchman whose men were to be used to enforce their enemy 's will .
25 If the votes of working men were to be obtained , the parties had to offer them something .
26 She concludes that women 's views need to be considered and then synthesised with men 's to ‘ find a human whole ’ .
27 The crucial factors are the relative opportunity costs and the ratio of men 's to women 's earnings .
28 ‘ You see , ’ said Lydia carefully , ‘ the only use women have for men is to be impregnated by them .
29 The confining of political rights , and most political activity , to men was to be characteristic of all official politics , including democratic politics , until about one hundred years ago .
30 To scoff at or curse the little men was to court disaster , for they made formidable enemies .
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