Example sentences of "men and [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will not go into the store where the eager young men and women modelling their smocks will sell them something expensive , attractive and useful that you have long tossed and turned at night in the lust to have in your possession . |
| 2 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 3 | Men were men and women knew their places . |
| 4 | Surely things worked better when men and women knew their place in society ? — that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Ideologies of management are needed to buttress a system of inequalities in organizations and the major social injustice of the ‘ daily routine of men and women wasting their lives and their intellects to gain their livelihoods ’ ( Salaman 1980b , p. 1 ) . |
| 6 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |
| 7 | Feminism 's concern with sexual politics extends into the whole range of representations of sexuality , masculinity and femininity , from advertising to pornography — it intervenes in the culture and in so doing seeks to change the ways in which men and women inhabit their masculinity and femininity . |
| 8 | In the forenoon many groups of men and women passed me . |
| 9 | Austen describes women in their time honoured role of debutante , wife and mother during the last period that such a role was unquestioned , before the Industrial and French Revolutions had changed the material world and the way European men and women saw themselves . |
| 10 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 11 | There are movements afoot at every hour of every day , there are men and women risking their lives . |
| 12 | Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit . |
| 13 | And secondly : no one , neither Minister at the head of a Department of State , nor local trade union leader of a workforce at imminent risk of unemployment , nor anyone else , should for purposes which are essentially ideological invite or encourage men and women to invest their hopes and expectations in projects only incidentally and doubtfully concerned to realise them . |
| 14 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 15 | The latter action bears directly on Robbins 's statement of purpose within the novel : ‘ In times such as ours … when there is too much order , too much management , too much programming and control , it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery ’ ( Robbins 1977 : 229 ) . |
| 16 | It reported that the process of falling in love was being studied at the University of Leicester in an attempt to explain how men and women select their partners . |
| 17 | Audrey Kinkead , the secretary of the Badminton Union of Ireland and an IBF and EBU council member , is delighted with the decision as there was a danger that the sport would split with the men and women going their own way . |
| 18 | But only when both men and women acknowledge its existence , its extent and its pervasiveness , can we act to end it . |
| 19 | The Birmingham Feminist History Group ( 1979 ) have argued that although notions of women 's equality were important in the 1950s , nevertheless : ‘ Ideologies about women in the fifties are underpinned by the notion of equal but different — men and women have their special spheres ; and women bring different qualities ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 20 | Thomas emerged from the hearings with considerable public sympathy , polls showing that a clear majority of both men and women backed him , but the long-term damage to his judicial reputation was unclear . |
| 21 | My job in Ghana was to teach young men and women doing their National Service about community health work in the villages . |
| 22 | English middle class men and women defined themselves not only in terms of their difference from and antagonism to other social classes , but also in terms of their difference from other races and peoples , especially the Irish , the Jews and the blacks . |
| 23 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 24 | It controls the avenues by which men and women advance their careers . |
| 25 | Men and boys send it arching , watery tributes . |
| 26 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 27 | Moreover , in the interests of trade regulation , thrashed out after many years of conflict between coalowners , merchants , shipowners and government , colliers were loaded in sequence and sailed in convoy , giving even better opportunities than elsewhere for seamen , keel men and others to pressurize their employers by delay . |
| 28 | These modest programmes were basically interviews in which gay men and lesbians discussed their lives and experiences . |
| 29 | had the future of their country and their children to consider , and it was their duty as men and husbands to use their utmost efforts to bring about a condition of things , where their wives would be in their proper sphere at home , instead of being dragged into competition for livelihood against the great and strong men of the world . |