Example sentences of "men to be " in BNC.

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1 In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) .
2 There , an Inspector Fusco pleads for men to be returned to beat patrol from community projects , for these he realizes are ‘ an admirable aspiration , until one starts to notice that community involvement officers come to work to spend much of their time in track suits or jeans and tee shirts , and some grow longer hair and beards and mix with the locals ’ .
3 Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly .
4 A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries .
5 Scottish police believe the men to be heavily implicated in the Lockerbie bombing .
6 Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by .
7 There 's a lot less emphasis on men to be stunning , it 's all about power and whether they can do their job .
8 ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to .
9 The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader .
10 The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly .
11 This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands .
12 It is likely that he chose a group of men to be his special disciples — apostles — because at that time a women would not have had the freedom to become travelling evangelists — to go round preaching and teaching .
13 If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence .
14 ‘ Counsel your men to be discreet , ’ Carew continued , ‘ we do n't want Kinsella to suspect that the police were involved . ’
15 What caused the men to be so desperate to contact the Girls ?
16 Everyone of my age has suffered from the character who insists on having bedroom windows open , for instance , on the grounds that it is a healthy dodge and worthy of all men to be received .
17 They like their men to be useless .
18 Only a tiny 7% of the male population do not shave regularly which is great news for women who prefer their men to be clean shaven .
19 Additionally , hogsheads were placed at various points , around which the bullards could manoeuvre and George Burton claims that ‘ It is notorious that the Stamford Bullards were amongst the most courageous men to be found in the country . ’
20 In the opening two chapters of Mark 's Gospel , Jesus calls five men to be his disciples .
21 The Snow White group was a favourite target of the other groups with taunts such as ‘ eat the apple ’ and ‘ she likes her men to be 3ft 10 ’ .
22 These two tendencies — looking for natural difference and failing to see cultural difference — reinforce one another , causing men to be studied and women to be stereotyped .
23 Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) .
24 Women are five times less likely than men to be with the same employer at 40 and eight times less likely at 55 ( Aoki 1984 p.82 ) .
25 Freud 's reply is that the research method of psychoanalysis has revealed that religion has not helped men to be happy , nor moral , nor cultured and intelligent .
26 Why is it so hard for men to be happy ?
27 I believe that the Scriptures speak of God as Father , that Christ was incarnate as a male , that he chose men to be his apostles … not because of social conditioning , but because in the order of creation headship and authority is symbolically and fundamentally associated with maleness .
28 ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . )
29 ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’
30 They are much more likely than men to be confined to housework within the household for which no wages at all are paid .
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