Example sentences of "men have " in BNC.

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1 The men have been locked up in their cells since day one of their imprisonment . ’
2 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
3 ‘ There will be fewer to bring it in next year , when the listed men have gone . ’
4 These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design .
5 Human rights organisations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted and are being victimised for being members of the leading opposition political party .
6 Finvest 's men have been making the bidding against RAI harder and harder by the season and now they are fighting on a match-by-match basis .
7 Astutely managed by Alex Totten , the former Rangers coach , the Perth men have their recent signings from Dundee United and Hearts , Harry Curran and Allan Moore , looking to increase an already impressive striking rate against Morton at McDiarmid Park this afternoon .
8 But so far only four men have been buried and no autopsy results have been disclosed .
9 Six UDR men have now been charged .
10 This creates problems for the neighbourhood police when events in the area force other sections of the force to adopt the more aggressive and repressive mode of public order policing , and the success the neighbourhood men have in overcoming communal suspicion depends almost entirely on wider social and political circumstances rather than any feature of their own conduct .
11 For centuries men have fought for the Church , died for it , loved it , or hated it .
12 Three men have forced their way in .
13 He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … .
14 The Haec Vir pamphlet ends , notoriously , with Hic Mulier declaring that women like her have only become masculine because men have become effeminate .
15 Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran .
16 But on the whole I do n't think that most of the men have changed their ideas or attitude that much . ’
17 Men have kept women out of sport except as helpers for those aspects of club life like dances and teas which were not segregated .
18 In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms .
19 The men have been exhaustively briefed on drop zones and emergency procedures , as well as the ground plan , to the extent that any man or unit should be able to carry out another 's task .
20 On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree .
21 But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge .
22 One of more than 1,000 women drivers taking part said , ‘ Men have to be good at everything , especially driving … it 's a big ego thing . ’
23 After all , it has produced a cornucopia of leaders for the United States in many fields , not to mention the fact that six Harvard men have become president of the United States .
24 Ms Jenny Wilson , a trustee of the charity , said research has shown that men have modified their sexual behaviour towards each other , but few towards women .
25 Both men have been identified as broadly supporting the repatriation policy and Mr Hurd , who again appealed for voluntary agencies , including the United Nations , to end their boycott of the monitoring process , may be willing to expand the delegation .
26 Both men have been prominent in the academic debates which have helped to make the current revolution in historical studies one of the most significant of the many upheavals Gorbachev has sanctioned .
27 Men have been getting away with murder for years .
28 The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard .
29 His party has appealed for volunteers to help Iraq in non-combat roles ; 20 gung-ho young men have stepped forward .
30 No more can I find , if not content , yet a gorgeous enjoyment , in mere dreams , where men have no past .
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