Example sentences of "[prep] men to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | There 's a lot less emphasis on men to be stunning , it 's all about power and whether they can do their job . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands . |
| 9 | Why is it so hard for men to be happy ? |
| 10 | From the steelworks stage of this section of work Wimpey adopted the use of power operated platforms to eliminate the need for men to be constantly climbing up and down ladders . |
| 11 | It is only right for men to be admitted these days . |
| 12 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 13 | I meant only that this is a matter of your will , and ought to be seen by men to be carried out in your name and at your direction . |