Example sentences of "man [coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 2 | Darwin seemed near a solution in the first edition of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , but by the second edition he had decided that it was a problem best left ‘ for the future ’ . |
| 3 | In his Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , therefore , Darwin concluded that for distasteful species ‘ the most gaudy colours would be serviceable , and might have been gained by variation and the survival of the most-easily recognised individuals ’ . |
| 4 | The period of the Spanish Civil War will feature ‘ Man and Woman in front of a pile of excrement ’ ( 1935 , Fundació Joan Miró , Barcelona ) and ‘ Une etoile caresse le sein d'une negresse ’ ( 1938 , Tate Gallery ) . |
| 5 | Russia may offer men or equipment in part-payment for its growing debt to the UN . |
| 6 | not supporting young gay men or lesbians for fear of being labelled as gay themselves . |
| 7 | Britain probably has a greater percentage of gifted men and women per head of population than any country in the world . |
| 8 | The liberal bourgeois ethic of the West is a force for alienation , ‘ bringing men and women into conflict with themselves and subjecting them to new forms of slavery while claiming to free them ’ . |
| 9 | Vice president-elect Al Gore said : ‘ We want to gather the thinking of men and women with expertise in all aspects of our economy to fine tune the proposals . ’ |
| 10 | Directive 76/207 has been implemented in Greece by Act 1414/1984 , which proclaimsthe principle of equal treatment of men and women with respect to , inter alia , access to employment ( Article 3 ) . |
| 11 | As Christians , our approach to the Old Testament is frequently selective : we value the Ten Commandments as a basis for public morality , the psalter as a help in public worship and the record of the lives of men and women of faith as examples from which we can learn . |
| 12 | The following week the train took all the young men and women of Bazar to the war factories of the Ruhr . |
| 13 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 14 | Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be . |
| 15 | Such discrimination is contrary to the principle of equal treatment of men and women regarding access to employment , which requires the setting up of a single list of successful candidates , without any regard to their sex , according to the marks obtained , and the hiring from this list according to the marks , irrespective of the candidates ' sex and the needs invoked by the employer , except in cases of occupational activities for which , by reason of their nature or the context in which they are carried out , the sex of the worker constitutes a determining factor . |
| 16 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 17 | Congress recognizes that discrimination in employment is part of a wider pattern of discrimination against homosexual men and women in society as a whole , and that a campaign to achieve the objects ( listed above in the resolution ) will be more effective if this is taken into account and is conducted in association with gay rights and civil liberty organizations . |
| 18 | In continental European countries , where lawyers can choose to become judges soon after qualifying , the judiciary looks very different to Britain , with , for example , near parity in numbers between men and women in countries like France and the Netherlands . |
| 19 | In Table 6.2 , the distribution of men and women in posts in secondary schools is provided . |
| 20 | A comparison of men and women in terms of rectal CSA , wall tension , and pressure at the onset of intermittent need for defecation showed no significant difference ( p=0.22 , p=0.26 , and p= 0.49 , respectively ) . |
| 21 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 22 | And it is men and women in relation to each other , and in relation to nature , that really captures the imagination of these drawing-room philosophers . |
| 23 | In no group were there significant differences between men and women in respect of allele frequencies . |
| 24 | Believe me , there are thousands of men and women like Jack in every Western society . |
| 25 | Guarantee equal rights for gay men and lesbians through changes to criminal law , anti-discrimination legislation and police practices . |
| 26 | However , the difficulties of transferring men and materials to France during the war , and the realisation that the Channel was unlikely to remain an inviolable defence in modern times , led to a revival of interest . |
| 27 | Twelve per cent of men and 12% of women were graduates , compared with 13% of men and 6% of women in the general population . |
| 28 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
| 29 | Her youth and looks aroused envy of Modi in the men and jealousy of Jeanne in the women . |
| 30 | In 1982 the general household survey showed a higher tobacco consumption in Scotland than the United Kingdom as a whole : 45% versus 38% in men and 39% versus 33% in women , respectively . |