Example sentences of "man [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 2 | Another problem to surface in 1982 was the reluctance of Japanese seamen to man vessels bound for the Gulf . |
| 3 | The longer people spend on the roads , the greater , presumably , the congestion and also probably the greater the accident rate : the slower traffic moves , the greater is the number of man lives spent on roads and this must have some place in the equation of national activity and productivity . |
| 4 | At a cost of two hundred and fifty pounds the one man boats admired by Julius Caesar look set to make a comeback . |
| 5 | ‘ That is a question every man dreads hearing from a pretty woman . ’ |
| 6 | Hampshire man captures Salver in sudden-death |
| 7 | This use of technology ( like Jethro Tull 's seed drill ) increased agricultural productivity : by replacing men by machines or giving men machines to work with more crops were produced and with less labour power . |
| 8 | The Great War started and took the scho er This Road school had all men teachers extep except standard one , which was an introduction from infants to grown-up and a matronly lady always called Miss , er broke us into this new sort of discipline and sternness really . |
| 9 | The world 's top eight fit men players arrived in Frankfurt last night agreed on one thing — any one of them could become the 1992 IBM ATP World Champion over the next six days . |