Example sentences of "the [noun] of men " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a subject that historians and sociologists , stressing the activities of men 's lives , have been inclined to overlook . |
| 2 | The growth of ethology can continue only if we find a way of talking about human experience that opens the whole range of the activities of men and women to inspection . |
| 3 | Acute illness episodes were also significant , restricting the activities of men over 75 for an average 47 days each year , and of women for an average 61 days each year — compared with 23 days and 29 days respectively for men and women of all ages . |
| 4 | M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise . |
| 5 | Probably the field of his choice was narrowed by the inability of men without friends at court to make an application . |
| 6 | She is whatever the majority of men regard as sexy at any given moment . |
| 7 | Women have a hard enough time — being a ‘ house-husband ’ in most circumstances would be a struggle as the majority of men would be unable to find the support that women get amongst their peer group . |
| 8 | The majority of men who survive can expect to have the support of a wife up to the age of 85 , but any woman over 72 is more likely to be a widow left on her own . |
| 9 | For the majority of men leading a fairly inactive life an intake of 1500kcals will probably produce the desired weekly weight loss . |
| 10 | The majority of men who develop gonorrhoea in the penile urethra will notice two main symptoms . |
| 11 | They should be protected by law from moral persecution as the majority of men mean no harm . |
| 12 | Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves . |
| 13 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 14 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 15 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 16 | The cosy solution of bourgeois educational success in which the sole objective was not to be a loser , was abruptly shattered by the realisation that the majority of men and women were , like his father , losers , and that to turn one 's back on them and on his origins in a strategy of personal self-survival , was an inadequate response . |
| 17 | The majority of men are accustomed to some particular style of living , and they generally refrain from marriage , if the increased expenses of married life would compel them to live in a manner which would not give them what has been aptly termed their historical standard of comfort . |
| 18 | ‘ The majority of men do n't want a relationship . |
| 19 | Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character ! |
| 20 | The majority of women — and , indeed , the majority of men — are feeling that they must start protecting family life . |
| 21 | Her real power lay in her knowledge of others , her awareness of the weakness of men , the destructive weight of a well-timed laugh . |
| 22 | Running with his dog across the fields , he joined the crowds of men and women fighting the fire . |
| 23 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 24 | For example , distinctions often need to be made between the opinions of men and women , single people and married people , young people and old people . |
| 25 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 26 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 27 | For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men ? |
| 28 | All we are saying in claiming the existence of men , he might argue , is that " x is a man " , given an appropriate substitution for x , can yield a knowable proposition . |
| 29 | Thus a more natural way of asserting the existence of men would be by saying " Some living creatures are men " , or something along these lines ; employing , that is , a proposition of the " Some 5 are P " type . |
| 30 | Three hours had passed by the measure of men and in Sichuan Province , in the great palace at Tongjiang , Li Shai Tung sat with his son in the dim-lit silence of his study , reading through the report General Nocenzi had brought . |