Example sentences of "men be [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some men are water drops and willowsprouts , it 's true , but not all . |
| 2 | Both men were part Austrian by birth and spent formative early years in Vienna . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |