Example sentences of "men [be] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some men are water drops and willowsprouts , it 's true , but not all . |
| 2 | The other dead men are David Russell , 22 , of Lochgelly , and Graham Spence , 39 , of Crosshill , who were travelling together in a white transit . |
| 3 | The three men are Jean Teillac , head of France 's atomic energy centre , Adolf Berkerhofer , head of the West German reactor safety institute and Niels Holm , the former head of the Riso research centre . |
| 4 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 5 | Servants were people who worked for the government or for a company : in Kufra 68 per cent , in Ajdabiya 52 per cent of men were government servants , about one third of them conscripts . |
| 6 | The Gloucester rugby men were weekend winners too … they beat Nottingham by nineteen points to three at Kingsholm … but victory came at a cost … a serious injury to hooker John Hawker |
| 7 | The men were Theodor Wolff ( later Chief Editor of the Berliner Tageblatt ) , Maximilian Harder ( actor and journalist ) , publisher Samuel Fischer , and director Otto Brahm . |
| 8 | The horse was Baron of Buchlyvie , the men were James Kilpatrick and William Dunlop , and the era was that of the heavy horse . |
| 9 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |
| 10 | The senior men were Richard Coad , John Burlison and a man Jackson calls John Bignold . |
| 11 | At Ibrox , his million-pound men were Richard Gough ( £1.1m from Spurs ) , Gary Stevens ( £1m from Everton ) , Trevor Steven ( £1.6m from Everton ) , Maurice Johnston ( £1m from Nantes ) , Mark Hateley ( £1m from Monaco ) and Oleg Kuznetsov ( £1.2m from Dinamo Kiev ) . |
| 12 | The hanged men were Gabriel Mohammed Tennyson , Francis Misheck Minnah , Prince Kai Kai , Joseph John Harding , Daniel Suleiman Kai Kai and Conrad Innis . |
| 13 | The men were granite figures , fearless in the primitive and dangerous under-earth world of coal : the women were half way to heaven — and in command . |
| 14 | British Aerospace Flying College said the men were Derek Smith , an instructor , of Newmilns , Ayrshire , and Paul Westwood , 36 , a trainee pilot , of Bagshot , Surrey . |
| 15 | The only reason Trent could imagine for the attack was to link him to Don Roberto 's murder — this presumed that the three men were Don Roberto 's hirelings . |
| 16 | One of the men was Captain Dance , the law officer from the nearby town . |
| 17 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 18 | Among the first to respond to the new President 's call for 75,000 men was John MacArthur , born in Elderslie in Renfrewshire , and Commander of the Highland Guard of Chicago . |
| 19 | One of those men was Major R. A. Bagnold and in June 1940 he was authorized to form a reconnaissance unit to collect information from behind enemy lines . |