Example sentences of "[pron] be men [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 2 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 3 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 4 | He explained his position in an article , ‘ Sukarno by Himself ’ , which appeared in June 1941 : ‘ There are men who say Sukarno is a nationalist ; others say he is no longer a nationalist but a Muslim ; and others again say he is neither nationalist nor Muslim but a Marxist . |
| 5 | Men , there are men who hate women , I agree with that but there are men who love and respect a a th what a woman is for how how good and and stre , the strength of women who can make you feel good and who who gives you the power of being able to be yourself and I I 'm sorry I I , that is part of it , I think there are two sides . |
| 6 | Men , there are men who hate women , I agree with that but there are men who love and respect a a th what a woman is for how how good and and stre , the strength of women who can make you feel good and who who gives you the power of being able to be yourself and I I 'm sorry I I , that is part of it , I think there are two sides . |
| 7 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 8 | And there are men who dub you ‘ beautiful ’ , |
| 9 | There are men who lead lives of constant distress for fear of losing their hair , and women who hug terror to themselves because they 're afraid of losing their youth . |
| 10 | There are men who toil because work is a pleasure to them and there are others who toil because work is a duty ; but the great majority of men are only stimulated to labour that in amount or character is distasteful to them , by the hope that they may be able , in the first place , to maintain themselves , and secondly to marry and maintain a family … |
| 11 | ‘ But there are men who consider her beautiful , ’ Isabel remarked , and in the next instant could have bitten her tongue out . |
| 12 | At the back of my mind lay the knowledge that there were men who enjoyed themselves sexually with other men . |
| 13 | There was little doubt that there were men who were as eligible , whose names would have aroused less comment . |
| 14 | It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 16 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 17 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 18 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |
| 19 | They are men who will have committed an offence within the confines of their family and community . |
| 20 | Many were crossed out , and she guessed they were men who 'd been killed or posted . |
| 21 | Certain non-royal persons , all of whom were men who had held official posts , were honoured as gods during the course of Egypt 's long history . |
| 22 | It 's men who are unfaithful to women , not vice versa . |
| 23 | It 's men who are complimented for being ‘ cocky ’ , who thrive on that kind of vanity and self-assurance . |
| 24 | However , it 's men who are currently having very little or no sexual activity who are among those who fantasize the most . |
| 25 | Both want to make love , but it 's men who are more interested in having sex . |
| 26 | ‘ Women have babies , ’ I said firmly to my redeeming friend , ‘ so it 's men who have to decide about spending money , such as money on restaurant bills . ’ |
| 27 | It is men who sit in parliament , debating the laws which control a woman 's destiny . |
| 28 | It is men who decide what a woman can reasonably expect of life . |
| 29 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 30 | And , therefore , these days it is men who are oppressed , not women . |