Example sentences of "men [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to . |
| 2 | Because women know men to be vulnerable and fragile , they are often tempted to excuse them as ‘ just little boys ’ who need to over-compensate for their sense of inadequacy or ‘ womb-envy ’ with acts of spiteful misogyny . |
| 3 | ‘ Counsel your men to be discreet , ’ Carew continued , ‘ we do n't want Kinsella to suspect that the police were involved . ’ |
| 4 | There 's a lot less emphasis on men to be stunning , it 's all about power and whether they can do their job . |
| 5 | Well , I think the first starting point is asking men to be self-aware and if one of the untoward consequences of that self-awareness is self-consciousness , then we 'll just have to live with that . |
| 6 | The Comforter comes not in order to allow men to be comfortable , but to make them missionaries . |
| 7 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , the earnings limit has a particularly harsh effect on women , who are more likely than men to be able to combine care-giving with continued part-time employment ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 50 ) . |
| 10 | Women were more likely than men to be dependent on poor relief . |
| 11 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 12 | They like their men to be useless . |
| 13 | Only a tiny 7% of the male population do not shave regularly which is great news for women who prefer their men to be clean shaven . |
| 14 | The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader . |
| 15 | Freud 's reply is that the research method of psychoanalysis has revealed that religion has not helped men to be happy , nor moral , nor cultured and intelligent . |
| 16 | Why is it so hard for men to be happy ? |