Example sentences of "men and [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is men and women whose knowledge goes with character , and with reverence for persons and for the things of the mind . ’ |
| 2 | And the proposition that the Conservative benches are now occupied by men and women whose ambitions have been forged in industry is greatly exaggerated . |
| 3 | With parliamentary life now dominated by machines rather than individuals , the back benches are packed with men and women whose only hope is to be offered a job in the Whips ' Office or a junior ministerial brief . |
| 4 | This is the closest the British pension system has got to earnings sharing between spouses , and it does not apply to men and women whose marriages end in divorce . |
| 5 | He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded ; he 'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite , with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound . |
| 6 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 7 | One is always tempted to save money by photographing locals , or the various attractive men and women one meets on holiday . |
| 8 | These philosophers and reformers believed that promotion of happiness could safely be entrusted to men and women themselves , without divine intervention , since they were innately good ; but some had misgivings about how to hold onto Christian charity . |
| 9 | We should be equally sensitive to the pervasive and often demeaning influences of some of the common images of old age on older men and women themselves . |
| 10 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 11 | Almost unbelievable stories of courage in the face of danger regularly appear on our cinema and television screens , featuring men and women whom an ungrateful country has been only too happy to forget . |
| 12 | Almost unbelievable stories of courage in the face of danger regularly appear on our cinema and television screens , featuring men and women whom an ungrateful country has been only too happy to forget . |
| 13 | We asked men and women what they understood by the oppression of women , what changes the new society would bring for them and what they hoped to contribute to that new society . |
| 14 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 15 | K-Swiss continue the theme of protection , support and stability with its Grancourt Gstaad tennis shoe , again a shoe for both men and women which is constructed by combining sock lasting in the fore part and board lasting at the heel to support and stabilise the foot . |
| 16 | In 1953 , the Ministry of Labour and National Service issued a memorandum on the Employment of Older Men and Women which claimed that ‘ for compelling social and economic reasons the door must be opened widely to the employment of people able and willing to work , irrespective of their age ’ . |
| 17 | Many researchers ( e.g. Sharpe 1976 ; Deem 1978 ) have argued that the occupational segregation of men and women which takes place after education is completed is related to the subject segregation which takes place at school . |
| 18 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 19 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 20 | But from these men and women there is much to be learnt . |
| 21 | SPECIALS focuses on the lives of five ordinary men and women who are part-time officers in the Special Constabulary ( the fictitious Division ‘ S ’ in West Midlands ) . |
| 22 | The Conservative Party is not looking for experts , but it is looking for men and women who have a good working knowledge of contemporary politics and a proven track record of experience in the party , and who above all know their own minds . |
| 23 | Those who do well are the men and women who can articulate a sense of their own values , and who convey conviction . |
| 24 | All were momentous events that will never be forgotten , least of all by the men and women who fought in them . |
| 25 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 26 | We have sheltered accommodation , with understanding professional staff , for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves . |
| 27 | Shortly after reading that I was fascinated to come across Hugh Seton-Watson 's account , in a book written 44 years ago , of how in Eastern Europe between the wars the word ‘ Communist ’ had become popular with the poor subjects of largely dictatorial regimes because their rulers used it as a term of abuse against ‘ ordinary men and women who have asked for reforms , protested against bureaucratic abuse , or resisted the gendarmerie in the execution of some wanton brutality . ’ |
| 28 | Among the different groups now contending for influence , the most important are the democratic reformers , the men and women who stood in recent local elections on platforms that broadly advocated multi-party politics and bolder economic change . |
| 29 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 30 | Rampton began life as a criminal lunatic asylum in 1912 and today takes men and women who require treatment under special security conditions because of their dangerous , violent or criminal tendencies . |